The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
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Narrated by:
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Joyce Bean
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Written by:
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Lucette Lagnado
About this listen
“Poignant...deeply personal...an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt....” (Miami Herald)
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado recreates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything and departs with the family 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 juxtaposed 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.
©2007 Lucette Lagnado (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers