‘;A powerful novel of tensionssexual, familial, religious, and political… Alexandriasensual and enchantingshimmers in these pages’ (Dalia Sofer, national-bestselling author of The Septembers of Shiraz). Alexandrian Summer is the story of two Jewish families living their frenzied last days in the doomed cosmopolitan social whirl of Alexandria just before fleeing Egypt for Israel in 1951. The conventions of the Egyptian upper-middle class are laid bare in this dazzling novel, which exposes startling sexual hypocrisies and portrays a now vanished polyglot world of horse-racing, seaside promenades, and elegant nightclubs. Hamdi-Ali senior is an old-time patriarch with more than a dash of strong Turkish blood. His handsome elder son, a promising horse jockey, can’t afford sexual frustration, as it leads him to overeat and imperil his career, but the woman he lusts after won’t let him get beyond undoing a few buttons. Victor, the younger son, takes his pleasure with other boys. But the true heroine of the storyrichly evoked in a pungent upstairs/downstairs mixis the raucous, seductive city of Alexandria itself. ‘;Helps show why postwar Alexandria inspires nostalgia and avidity in seemingly everyone who knew it… The result is what summer reading should be: fast, carefree, visceral, and incipiently lubricious.’ The New Yorker ‘;Luminous… One of the great triumphs of Alexandrian Summer is the richness of the evocation of this city and the multiple cultures pressed within it… A sultry eroticism pervades.’ The Forward ‘;Gormezano Goren’s characters are vividly depicted as they grow up or grow older in a city of conflicting loyalties, riven by resentment, ready to revolt. Readers will be transported.’ Publishers Weekly ‘;A profound literary experience.’ Ahshav
Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
Alexandrian Summer [EPUB ebook]
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