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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado (2007, Hardcover) 
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado (2007, Hardcover)

 
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado (2007, Hardcover)

Publisher: Ecco Pr
Publication Date: 2007-07-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0060822120
ISBN-13: 9780060822125
Product ID: EPID57053552
Description: Lagnado re-creates the cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business in his signature white sharkskin suit on the elegant terrace o...
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Lagnado re-creates the cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business in his signature white sharkskin suit on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton. But with the fall of King Farouk, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets are renamed, neighborhoods of their fellow Jews disbanded, and the city purged of foreign influence, the Lagnados, too, must make their escape. With all of their belongings packed into 26 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 juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.--From publisher description.

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Publication Date:2007-07-01

Size
Length:340 pages
Height:9.3 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:22.4 oz

Publisher's Note
The daughter of a once-successful Jewish boulevardier traces her youth in post-World War II Cairo before and after Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, an event that caused her family to lose everything and forced them to flee to America. 30,000 first printing.

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