Man in the White Sharkskin Suit My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

Name: Man in the White Sharkskin Suit My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
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ISBN: 9780060822125

ISBN-10: 0060822120

ISBN-13: 9780060822125

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lucette Lagnado, Lucette Lagnado

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/26/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.00" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English