Alexandrian Summer, by Yitzhak Gormezano Goren, and translated from Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan, has a common enough theme for any group of people who are about to leave their homeland for another country: nostalgia.
Goren is nostalgic about his fictional Jewish family and their last summer in Egypt. And why not? The family in this novel is well-off, cosmopolitan, multi-lingual, and relatively wealthy.
Israel would, and will, hold little value for them. They were part of an Egyptian milieu that worked for them until it did not. Then all that was left was aching memory of those better days.
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