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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
- My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
“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.
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- Albert Dwek
- 30-06-23
Moving story of a family uprooted
For anybody who has had to leave the place of their birth to be transplanted into a completely different culture this story will strike a chord. It is a form of grieving for a culture lost and never to be restored.
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- Raf
- 09-02-23
Amazing trip through memories
Incredibily powerful, brought back to life my family's memories. It is in many senses the story of many Jews who had to leave Egypt. Moving, clever, superbly told.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-08-22
More than a personal memoir
This wonderful. personal memoir resonates across countries, cultures, faiths and through the decades. Beautiful! An insight into Egypt past and present.
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