Out of egypt

R$ 119,90

Sinopse

'[A] mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world. Aciman's story of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish family with Italian and Turkish roots that tied its future to Egypt and made its home there for three generations, only to find itself peremptorily expelled by the Government in the early 1960's. It is the story of a fractious clan of dreamers and con men and the emotional price they would pay for exile, the story of a young boy's coming of age and his memories of the city he loved in his youth.Writing in lucid, lyrical prose, Mr. Aciman does an exquisite job of conjuring up the daily rhythms and rituals of his family's life: their weekly trips to the movies, their daily jaunts to the beach, their internecine squabbles over everything from religion to money to the pronunciation of words. There are some wonderfully vivid scenes here, as strange and marvelous as something in Garcia Marquez, as comical and surprising as something in Chekhov.' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Participantes

Autor: Andre Aciman

Autor

ANDRE ACIMAN

André Aciman (Alexandria – Egito, 1951) pertence a uma família de judeus expatriados que buscou o exílio na Itália e, depois, nos EUA. Doutorou-se em literatura comparada por Harvard, lecionou em Princeton e hoje é professor no The Graduate Center de Nova York, tendo Marcel Proust como um dos seus principais objetos de pesquisa. Publica não ficção, como o memorialístico Out of Egypt (1994), e ficção, como Me chame pelo seu nome (2018) – este adaptado para o cinema pelo diretor italiano Luca Guadagnino, aclamado nos festivais de Berlim, Toronto, do Rio, no Sundance e ganhador do Oscar de melhor roteiro adaptado em 2018.