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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

- A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Af: Lucette Lagnado Engelsk Paperback

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

- A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Af: Lucette Lagnado Engelsk Paperback
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“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”

—Miami Herald

In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything, and departs with the family 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 juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.

An inversion of the American dream set against the stunning portraits of three world cities, Lucette Lagnado’s memoir offers a grand and sweeping story of faith, tradition, tragedy, and triumph.

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“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”

—Miami Herald

In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything, and departs with the family 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 juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.

An inversion of the American dream set against the stunning portraits of three world cities, Lucette Lagnado’s memoir offers a grand and sweeping story of faith, tradition, tragedy, and triumph.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9780060822187
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 006082218X
Kategori: Egypt
Udg. Dato: 12 nov 2008
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 135mm
Højde: 203mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Oplagsdato: 12 nov 2008
Forfatter(e): Lucette Lagnado
Forfatter(e) Lucette Lagnado


Kategori Egypt


ISBN-13 9780060822187


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 368


Udgave


Længde 22mm


Bredde 135mm


Højde 203mm


Udg. Dato 12 nov 2008


Oplagsdato 12 nov 2008


Forlag HarperCollins Publishers Inc