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Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
Lucette Lagnado
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Description for Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 296. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Ecco
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780060822187
SKU
KRA0013183
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Ref
99-1
About Lucette Lagnado
Born in Cairo, Lucette Lagnado and her family were forced to flee Egypt as refugees when she was a small child, eventually coming to New York. She is the author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, for which she received the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in 2008, and is the coauthor of Children of the Flames: ... Read more
Reviews for Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
"Beautifully written... A great personalized telling of Egypt's complicated history in the last half of the 20th century."
Fareed Zakaria "Like Andre Aciman...she conjures a vanished world with elegiac ardor and uncommon grace."
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "[A] crushing, brilliant book...one final kiss from the Lagnados to their beloved city."
New York Times Book Review "This ... Read more
Fareed Zakaria "Like Andre Aciman...she conjures a vanished world with elegiac ardor and uncommon grace."
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "[A] crushing, brilliant book...one final kiss from the Lagnados to their beloved city."
New York Times Book Review "This ... Read more