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Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S. (Paperback)) Book
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Foyles
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit. But with the fall of King Farouk and Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets are renamed, neighborhoods of their fellow Jews disbanded, and the city purged of all foreign influence, the Lagnados, too, must make their escape.With all of their belongings packed into twenty-six suitcases, their jewels and gold coins hidden in sealed tins of marmalade, Leon and his family depart for any land that will take them. The poverty and hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to Paris to New York are strikingly juxta-posed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.
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BookDepository
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780060822187 : 006082218X : 12 Nov 2008 : With the fall of King Farouk and Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, Leon and his family lose everything. With all of their belongings, Leon and his family depart for any land that will take them. The poverty and hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to New York are juxta-posed against the lives they left behind.
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Blackwell
This poignant and breathtaking memoir from an award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter recounts the exile of her family from Egypt and her father's heroic and tragic struggle to survive his riches-to-rags trajectory. In vivid and graceful...
- 006082218X
- 9780060822187
- Lucette Matalon Lagnado
- 1 February 2009
- HarperCollins
- Paperback (Book)
- 368
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