The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews...
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lagnado, Lucette

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

$16.99

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

$16.99
Author: Lucette Lagnado
Format: Paperback
Language: English

“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.



Author: Lucette Lagnado
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.37h x 6.09w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780060822187


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/03/2008 pg. 20

About the Author
Lagnado, Lucette: -

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 was 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: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz, which has been translated into nearly a dozen foreign languages. Joining the Wall Street Journal in 1996, she received numerous awards and was a senior special writer and investigative reporter. She died in 2019.

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