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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.)

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

por Lagnado, Lucette

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006082218X
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9780060822187
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Ecco, 2008. Soft Cover. Very Good. Minor thumbing, slight browning to interior, else tight and clean.

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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, the Lagnados, too, must make their escape. With all of their belongings packed into twenty-six suitcases, their jewels and gold coins hidden in sealed tins of marmalade, Leon and his family depart 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 juxta-posed 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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Livreiro
Burke's Book Store US (US)
Nº do estoque do livreiro
282319
Título
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.)
Autor
Lagnado, Lucette
Formato/Encadernação
Soft Cover
Estado do livro
Usado - Muito Bom
Quantidade Disponível
1
Encadernação
Brochura
ISBN 10
006082218X
ISBN 13
9780060822187
Editorial
Ecco
Local de publicação
New York, New York, U.s.a.
Data de publicação
2008
Palavras-chave
memoir history judaica, , , , , , , ,

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