Out of Egypt, Andre Aciman
Out of Egypt, Andre Aciman
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Out of Egypt
A Memoir

Author: André Aciman

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/23/2022


Synopsis

This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and editor.

An all new recording of Out of Egypt, André Aciman's acclaimed memoir, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini!

From the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt is a richly colored memoir chronicling the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later.

In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life - Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; Aunt Flora, the German refugee who warns that Jews lose everything "at least twice in their lives."

And through it all, we come to know a boy who, even as he longs for a wider world, does not want to be led, forever, out of Egypt.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About André Aciman

André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, and Find Me. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.

About Edoardo Ballerini

Edoardo Ballerini is an American writer, director, film producer and actor.  He has won many awards for his audiobook narration; within only a few years after beginning his narrating career, he won several AudioFile Earphones Awards for his work, including Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How The World Became Modern, Jodi Picoult’s The Storyteller and Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins.   He narrated Kenzaburo Oe’s Nobel Prize Winning Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Joseph Finder’s The Moscow Club as well as works by John Edward and Daniel Stashower.   In television and film, he is best known for his role in The Sopranos, 24, I Shot Andy Warhol, Dinner Rush and Romeo Must Die. The silky-voiced Ballerini is trained in theater and continues to do much work on stage.


Reviews

Goodreads review by William2 on June 16, 2021

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......more

Goodreads review by Barry on August 19, 2019

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......more

Goodreads review by Titi on September 16, 2024

Bine structurată povestea clanului de sefarzi și așkenazi care formează arborele genealogic al autorului, cu toate împachetările ,plecările, sosirile și fugile de-a lungul Europei secolului al XX-lea. O poveste cosmopolită, cu caractere bine construite și personaje memorabile și, deși tema principal......more

Goodreads review by merixien on October 24, 2023

Bu kitabı çok yanlış bir zamanda okudum o yüzden üzerine bir şeyler söylemem ne kadar doğru bilmiyorum. Bunu kolektif acıları karşılaştırmak olarak algılamayın lütfen; çok yakın bir coğrafyada öylesine büyük bir acı ve vahşete maruz kalıyorken okuduğumuz kitaplardaki acı ve kederi algılama eşiğimiz......more

Goodreads review by Eylül on August 15, 2023

"Biten şey gündelik hayatlarımızdı; dostlarımız, sahiller, bildiğim her şey, Ramazan, Roxane, Abdou, guavalar, barın üzerine sertçe çarpılan tavla pullarının çıkardığı ses, geç edilen yaz kahvaltılarındaki patlıcan kızartmalar, yağmurlu hafta içi günlerde dinlenen Radyo İsrail ve sinemadan sinemaya......more


Quotes

“It is Mr. Aciman's great achievement that he has re-created a world gone forever now, and given us an ironical and affectionate portrait of those who were exiled from it.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Aciman may have gone out of Egypt but, as this evocative and imaginative book makes plain, he has never left it, nor it him.” —The Washington Post

“With beguiling simplicity, Aciman recalls the life of Alexandria as [his family] knew it, and the seductiveness of that beautiful, polyglot city permeates his book.” —The New Yorker

“Beautifully remembered and even more beautifully written.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

“The past recaptured in [Aciman's] elegant memoir is full of cucumber lotion and Schubert melodies, Parmesan cheese and the chatter of backgammon chips--all the smells and sounds of Alexandria that he knew before [leaving].” —The New Republic

“To find Alexandria in these pages, all rosy and clear-eyed from the tonic of Aciman's telling, is the greatest imaginable gift.” —James Merrill

“An extraordinary memoir of an eccentric family, a fascinating milieu, and a complex cosmopolitan culture. This beautifully written book combines the sensuousness of Lawrence Durrell, the magic of Garcia Marquez, and the realism of intimate observation. A rich portrait of a surprising and now-vanished world.” —Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation