Schlepping Across the Nile: Collected Stories Zevy Aaron
Schlepping Across the Nile: Collected Stories Zevy Aaron In the footsteps of Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt and Lucette Lagnado's The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit comes Aaron Zevy's Schlepping Across…
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Schlepping Across the Nile: Collected Stories Zevy Aaron
In the footsteps of Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt and Lucette Lagnado's The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit comes Aaron Zevy's Schlepping Across the Nile: a collection of vignettes, memoirs and stories, culled from Zevy's first three books, which crackle with wit, brazen sentimentality and unfiltered self-awareness.This collection adds a comic and often poignant twist to the story of the nearly 1 million strong Jews who lived in Arab lands before the second world war. His Ashkenazi side is the wry, bemused spectator of the antics and entanglements of his other half. But Zevy, the son of an Ashkenazi father and Sephardic mother adds some shtick to his recollections.
In Crossing the Nile, the young Zevy begs his mother to make Lipton Cup-A-Soup and grilled cheese instead of an Egyptian concoction for a Canadian friend coming over for lunch. In