The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World - Paperback
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
"Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . "
--Miami Herald
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates 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...
Born in Cairo, Lucette Lagnado and her family were forced to flee Egypt as refugees when she was a small child, eventually coming to New York. She was the author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, for which she received the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in 2008, and is the coauthor of Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of...
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