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

Name: Man in the White Sharkskin Suit A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
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ISBN: 9780060822187

ISBN-10: 006082218X

ISBN-13: 9780060822187

Edition: 2009

Authors: Lucette Lagnado, Lucette Lagnado

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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…

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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Prologue: A Courtship in Cairo-Spring 1943



The Captain Cairo, 1942-1963



The Days and Nights of the Captain



The Season of Apricots



The Lost Uncle



The Last Days of Tarboosh



The Prisoner of Malaka Nazli Street



The Essence of a Name



Alexandra in the Promised Land



The Arabic Lesson



The Lament of the Rose Petal Vendors



The Cure for Cat Scratch Fever



The Wayward Daughter



Last Call at the Dark Bar



The Exile Paris, and Then New York, 1963-1982



The Jewel Within



The Missing Birthday



The English Lesson



The Wrath of Sylvia Kirschner



The Hebrew Lesson



The Ballad of the Tie Salesman



Waiting for Elijah



The Captain at War



The House of Prayer



Olives



The Guardian of the Orphans of Jerusalem



Psalms for My Father


Epilogue: Cairo, Finally, and Again-Spring 2005


Acknowledgments


Selected Bibliography