About this title: 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 ...
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: GOOD. Trade Paperback-9780060822187 [LAGNADO, LUCETTE] MAN IN THE WHITE SHARKSKIN SUIT, THE JEWISH FAMILYS EXODUS FROM OLD CAIRO TO NEW WORLD. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780060822187ISBN:006082218X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial
Date Published: 2008-07-01
ISBN-13:9780060822187ISBN:006082218X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780060822187ISBN:006082218X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 368 pages. 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 hardsh1ps they encounter in their flight from cairo to new york are juxta-posed against the lives they left behind. illustrations (Paperback) read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PERENNIAL
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780060822187ISBN:006082218X
Description: New. 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. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780060822187ISBN:006082218X
Description: New. 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... read more
"This is a compelling book about a dangerous and trying time during and before the second World War. Lagnado has captured the spirit of her father (The Man) who was a dignitary in the Jewish community of Cairo until the Nazis came and then came a huge change in their lives as they fled to safety, eventually ending up in New York, with almost nothing to their name except their name. An emotional look at what war and prejudice can do to one illustroius family."
"Lagnado makes a lost world come to life. A must for those interested in the Diaspora that created trainsitions for thousands after WWII when the world was barely dealing with the creatin of Israel. I can see her father, a boulevadier, strolling the streets of Cairo. A masterful job!"
"This is a simply splendid book. It is the beautifully written account of the author's father, from his days when, as a Jew in Cairo, he was accepted in the highest of society and was a bon vivant, to his last years, as a tie vendor on the streets of New York. It vividly recreates an era in Cairo that is not that widely known. It is one of the best books I've read in years, and I cannot recommend it highly enough."
"Lagnado writes about the glory of Cairo from the years between WW II and Nasser's rise to power. She highlights the life that the Jews and her wealthy father lived until they were forced out of Egypt with only $200 in cash. She traces the poverty and hardship the family endured as refugees in Paris and then New York in contrast to the comforts of the life they lived in Egypt. She traces her development into a young woman in America in contrast with her father's decline pyhysically and economically. I couldn't put it down and I read every word. Almost all of the immigrant stories that we read from the European perspective. This gives insight to the Jews of the Middle East of whom I had no knowledge."
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