“A self-taught writer with an uncanny gift for narrative and dialogue … a born rebel and troublemaker of immense charm.”
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Roman Polanski
“Alexandrian Summer is a return to a mythical past, to a lost paradise that was not really a paradise but that, being lost, has, over the years, acquired all the makings of one.”
André Aciman, author of Out of Egypt, Call Me by Your Name and Harvard Square