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The essays in this collection have appeared in Commentary, Condé Nast Traveler, Contentville, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and The Yale Review
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Aciman, André
False papers / André Aciman
p cm
ISBN 0-312-42005-6
1 Aciman, André—Journeys—Egypt 2 Jews, Egyptian—New York (State)—
New York—Travel 3 Alexandria (Egypt)—Description and travel 4 Jews—
Egypt—Alexandria—Biography I Title
F128 9 J5 A353 2000
916 2’1—dc21
00-027766
CIP
First Picador September 2001