Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt is Receiving Rave Reviews from Readers and Critics
Author, Jean Naggar is pleased to announce the promotion of her book, Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt. Jean’s story has been told across the world and is a former reviewer for wrote book reviews for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Publishers Weekly.
New York, NY, March 25, 2013 --(PR.com)-- This work chronicles the magical world of the author's childhood as daughter of two prominent Sephardic Jewish families came to a dramatic end in 1956 when Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and brought about the Suez Crisis that scattered the Jewish population of Egypt far and wide. Jean Naggar has brought to life this lost world and the idiosyncratic individuals who populated her childhood years in her captivating memoir, Sipping From the Nile: My Exodus From Egypt, (Encore, 2012).
This story speaks to a different wave of immigrants and tells the American Jewish story viewed through an unfamiliar lens. As always, it is a story of lost worlds and difficult transitions, and the innocence of childhood in a world about to break apart. It is also about an essentially Sephardic experience, about the price and consequences of colonialism in the Middle East, about exotic locales and strong family values.
Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt was a finalist in the 2012 International Book Awards in both the memoir and narrative nonfiction categories. Short-listed for the 2011 Eric Hoffer Grand Award it was also the first runner-up in the memoir category.
Recent Praise:
“Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt by Jean Naggar is like listening to an elder relative talks about your family. Ms. Naggar presents life as she knows it, full of vivid detail and eccentric relatives.” – BlogCritics.org
“Readers will rejoice in this memoir of a Jewish life and culture that, sadly, no longer exists. But even more, this exodus from Egypt is the great American success story, filled with fine vignettes and character studies. Sipping from the Nile is a moving and beautifully written account about how one smart, resilient outsider made her own way.” – Susan Isaacs, author of Past Perfect, Any Place to Hang My Hat, and Compromising Positions
“An intriguing way of life that no longer exists. Glamorous, exciting, filled with the sophisticated life of a Jewish family living in Europe and the Middle East, Naggar documents times of elegant lifestyles, to the tumultuous struggles of war. The book is beautifully written, with vivid descriptions of homes, meals, glamorous clothing and social events while living in Egypt, later on in England, and finally in New York City. The history of this extended family is a most interesting look at a loving, religious, educated culture. And like every family, there is passionate love and loss, but always there is the undercurrent of delight and an indomitable will to do more than just survive.” - US Review of Books
Book Information:
Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt
Author: Jean Naggar
Publisher: Encore
ISBN: 978-1612181417
Pages: 368
Published: February 2012
About The Author:
Jean Naggar was born in Alexandria, Egypt, where her mother's parents lived. She grew up in Cairo, attended the Gezira Preparatory School and then The English School in Heliopolis before going to Roedean School in England, for her high school years.
After graduating from London University Jean (Mosseri) Naggar met and married Serge Naggar, the "boy next door" and followed him to New York City where she has lived ever since. A voracious reader all her life, she wrote poetry which was published in The Listener and Athanor, and translated several books from French into English. She founded the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency in New York City in 1978, (see www.JVNLA.com) and is responsible for bringing many best-selling and iconic writers to the attention of the reading public, happily sharing her reading passions with the world. She is a former president of AAR (Association of Authors' Representatives) and has been sought after as a speaker at events around the US. Mother of three adult children and grandmother of seven, she is at last exploring her childhood dream: to write.
Her articles have been published in the New York Times, the Village Voice, and Publishers Weekly. She has most recently been a blogger for the Huffington Post and a guest blogger on many sites of Jewish interest and of interest to writers. Links to her articles and blogs can be found on her personal website: www.jeannaggar.com Also, check out her blog on the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jean-naggar.
For more information, review copies, or interviews please contact the author at:
Jean Naggar
E-mail: jnaggar@jvnla.com
Website: http://www.jeannaggar.com
Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt is available for purchase online through the author’s website, from the publisher, Amazon.com, BN.com and other online retailers. Bookstores should contact Ingram for wholesale orders.
This story speaks to a different wave of immigrants and tells the American Jewish story viewed through an unfamiliar lens. As always, it is a story of lost worlds and difficult transitions, and the innocence of childhood in a world about to break apart. It is also about an essentially Sephardic experience, about the price and consequences of colonialism in the Middle East, about exotic locales and strong family values.
Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt was a finalist in the 2012 International Book Awards in both the memoir and narrative nonfiction categories. Short-listed for the 2011 Eric Hoffer Grand Award it was also the first runner-up in the memoir category.
Recent Praise:
“Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt by Jean Naggar is like listening to an elder relative talks about your family. Ms. Naggar presents life as she knows it, full of vivid detail and eccentric relatives.” – BlogCritics.org
“Readers will rejoice in this memoir of a Jewish life and culture that, sadly, no longer exists. But even more, this exodus from Egypt is the great American success story, filled with fine vignettes and character studies. Sipping from the Nile is a moving and beautifully written account about how one smart, resilient outsider made her own way.” – Susan Isaacs, author of Past Perfect, Any Place to Hang My Hat, and Compromising Positions
“An intriguing way of life that no longer exists. Glamorous, exciting, filled with the sophisticated life of a Jewish family living in Europe and the Middle East, Naggar documents times of elegant lifestyles, to the tumultuous struggles of war. The book is beautifully written, with vivid descriptions of homes, meals, glamorous clothing and social events while living in Egypt, later on in England, and finally in New York City. The history of this extended family is a most interesting look at a loving, religious, educated culture. And like every family, there is passionate love and loss, but always there is the undercurrent of delight and an indomitable will to do more than just survive.” - US Review of Books
Book Information:
Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt
Author: Jean Naggar
Publisher: Encore
ISBN: 978-1612181417
Pages: 368
Published: February 2012
About The Author:
Jean Naggar was born in Alexandria, Egypt, where her mother's parents lived. She grew up in Cairo, attended the Gezira Preparatory School and then The English School in Heliopolis before going to Roedean School in England, for her high school years.
After graduating from London University Jean (Mosseri) Naggar met and married Serge Naggar, the "boy next door" and followed him to New York City where she has lived ever since. A voracious reader all her life, she wrote poetry which was published in The Listener and Athanor, and translated several books from French into English. She founded the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency in New York City in 1978, (see www.JVNLA.com) and is responsible for bringing many best-selling and iconic writers to the attention of the reading public, happily sharing her reading passions with the world. She is a former president of AAR (Association of Authors' Representatives) and has been sought after as a speaker at events around the US. Mother of three adult children and grandmother of seven, she is at last exploring her childhood dream: to write.
Her articles have been published in the New York Times, the Village Voice, and Publishers Weekly. She has most recently been a blogger for the Huffington Post and a guest blogger on many sites of Jewish interest and of interest to writers. Links to her articles and blogs can be found on her personal website: www.jeannaggar.com Also, check out her blog on the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jean-naggar.
For more information, review copies, or interviews please contact the author at:
Jean Naggar
E-mail: jnaggar@jvnla.com
Website: http://www.jeannaggar.com
Sipping from the Nile: My Exodus from Egypt is available for purchase online through the author’s website, from the publisher, Amazon.com, BN.com and other online retailers. Bookstores should contact Ingram for wholesale orders.
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