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This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and editor

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 Andr 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