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

by: Lucette Lagnado

: The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 900
EAN: 9780060822187
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 006082218X
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: July 01, 2008
Sales Rank: 3126
Studio: Harper Perennial



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Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, Leon loses everything and his family is forced to flee, abandoning a life once marked by beauty and luxury to plunge into hardship and poverty, as they take flight for any country that would have them.



A vivid, heartbreaking, and powerful inversion of the American dream, Lucette Lagnado's unforgettable memoir is a sweeping story of family, faith, tradition, tragedy, and triumph set against the stunning backdrop of Cairo, Paris, and New York.



Winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a 'brilliant, crushing book' and the New Yorker as a memoir of ruin 'told without melodrama by its youngest survivor,' The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit recounts the exile of the author's Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo in 1963 and her father's heroic and tragic struggle to survive his 'riches to rags' trajectory.





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