My Roman year
Aciman, André2024
Book
Rome, 1964. As 13-year-old André stands at the foot of the gangway to the ship, his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria, the home where they have left their father, as the Aciman family begin a new adventure. André is now head of the family, with a little brother to keep in line and a mother to translate for - for although she's mute, she is nothing if not communicative. Equal parts transporting and beautiful, this coming-of-age memoir shares the luminous, fragile truth of life for a family forever in exile, living in Rome, but still yet to find a home.
Main title:
My Roman year / André Aciman.
Author:
Aciman, André, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
ix, 354 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Please, don't hate meThey're in my pocketMendicantsThe Chalabi-Hanan experimentRoundtablingParis, c'est une blondeThinking AmericanDomenica delle PalmeA garden partyImprovisingElsewhereNow you tell me?Via Clelia.
ISBN:
9780571385171 (hardback)
Dewey class:
945.632092B/ACI
Language:
English
Subject:
Aciman, André -- Childhood and youthAciman familyJews, Egyptian -- Italy -- Rome -- BiographyJewish refugees -- Italy -- Rome -- BiographyJewish families -- Italy -- Rome -- BiographyAuthors, American -- 20th century -- BiographyRome (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryAlexandria (Egypt) -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryAutobiographies
BRN:
2689250