Alexandrian Summer
by Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
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Love, lust, and the convulsions of history surge through this dazzling novel about the vanished cosmopolitan world of Alexandria.Tags
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The story of two families summering in Alexandria in 1951 when it was a vibrant cosmopolitan city. Tales of sexual hypocrisies, horse racing, and obsessions.
Great book that really pulls you into a journey that enlightens you to the lives of the Mizrachim, Jews from the middle east.
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- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 892.436 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Afro-Asiatic literatures Jewish, Israeli, and Hebrew Hebrew fiction 1947–2000
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- PJ5054 .G646 .K313 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Hebrew Literature Individual authors and works
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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