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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

şimdi salonda boya yapılırken ben kalan 40 sayfamı okudum. muhtemelen üstünden tekrar geçecek ve aile için soy ağacı çıkaracağım. andre acıman’ı ilk kez okuyorum. “adınla çağır beni”yi izlemiş ve kopan kıyamette pek de beğenmediğimi söylemeye çekinmiştim. ama iyi ki bu görkemli anı kitabıyla okumaya 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

An incredibly moving memoir that details the intricate relationships of a multi-generational Jewish family in Egypt. I learned so much about recent Egyptian history and was given deeper insight into the continuing global struggles of the Jewish people. The role that British colonialism played in the Leggi tutto

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