The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Recommended by The Big Pharaoh, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #4 in Egyptian History, Ranked #62 in Egypt — see more rankings.
“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 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... more
—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 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... more
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The Big Pharaoh Just knew Egyptian American and Jewish author Lucette Lagnado has passed away. Author of one of the best book I’ve read: The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit. I remember an email she sent me after reading one of my blogs. I was thrilled to read her name in my inbox. May she RIP (Source)
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