Man in the White Sharkskin Suit e-bog
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“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...
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Forlag
HarperCollins e-books
Udgivet
13 oktober 2009
Længde
368 sider
Genrer
1HBE
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780061827501
“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 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.