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Brilliant! In its early pages it’s interesting to think of this book as a flipside of Naguib Mahfouz’s The Cairo Trilogy . Both stories are multigenerational family sagas set in Egypt during the same period, early to mid-20th century. But while Mahfouz’s three-volume book focuses on an Arab family an Leggi tutto

A really stunning memoir, which despite being published in the US in 1994, is only appearing in print at this side of the Atlantic in 2019 (due to Faber's recent acquisition of Aciman's back catalogue). Aciman's accounts of his family are almost unbelievable. Whereas many families may have one chara Leggi tutto

Unlike features of a landscape like trees and mountains, people have feet. They move to places where the opportunities are best, and they soon invite their friends and relatives to join them. This demographic mixing turns the landscape into a fractal, with minorities inside minorities inside minorit Leggi tutto

3.5 stars. One benefit of reading this memoir is what you learn about the climate of Egypt after the Egyptian revolution and the Suez Canal Company debacle, how it must have felt for a Jewish-European family living and doing business in Egypt. I must admit, I liked False Papers better because I love Leggi tutto

This book is utterly fascinating. This family of Turkish Jews speaks a form of Spanish (except the ones who speak German), tell people they are Italian, identify with France, and live in Alexandria Egypt, before leaving due to war and the same seizure of goods they suffered a generation or two earli Leggi tutto

I agree with this appreciation .

Ako mi je ova knjiga nešto dokazala, to je da je Asiman jedan od boljih pripovedača sa kojima sam se susreo u poslednjih nekoliko godina. Sa Asimanom sam se upoznao sa romanom ''Zovi me svojim imenom'' koji i dan danas preporučujem - da, taj roman može mnogima biti otrcan ili izlizan, ali je toliko Leggi tutto

Qué maravilla. Es probablemente el mejor libro que he leído en el año en el que más libros he leído de toda mi vida. Es esta la historia de una familia, como tantas otras, con sus rarezas, sus chistes internos, sus familiares esperpénticos, sus idiomas inventados, y sus mitos, y sus costumbres, y su Leggi tutto

Recensione originale: https://sonnenbarke.wordpress.com/202... Premetto che non ho (ancora) letto il libro più famoso di André Aciman ,  Chiamami col tuo nome . Nonostante ciò ho voluto leggere questo suo libro di memorie, dopo aver letto alcune recensioni su Goodreads che mi avevano fatto pensare a un' Leggi tutto

Uno spartiacque Spesso la vita ha uno spartiacque e gli avvenimenti si collocano prima o dopo. Quello di André Aciman è l’addio ad Alessandria d’Egitto, dove le famiglie dei suoi genitori vivevano da 3 generazioni. E’ un addio annunciato da anni, col peggiorare dei rapporti diplomatici con Francia, G Leggi tutto