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"A stunning achievement."--Andre Aciman, author of OUT OF EGYPT and CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
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In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit. But with the fall of King Farouk and Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets are renamed, neighborhoods of their fellow Jews disbanded, and the city purged of all foreign influence, the Lagnados, too, must make their escape.With all of their belongings packed into twenty-six 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 juxta-posed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.
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"The man in the white sharkskin suit" was written by a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, so it goes without saying that this is a beautifully written piece of work. Drawing together the memories and recollections of members of her family from before she was born, Lagnado conjures up images of a sophisticated and cosmopolitan Cairo that is apparently now largely lost. She then recounts how the Jewish community in Egypt fell on difficult times, forcing them to fan out across the world. Lagnado ended up in the US, a section of the book that is no less interesting than the Cairo chapters.
I very much recommend this book, to anybody really but in particular to those interested in Jewish and Egyptian recent history.
I very much recommend this book, to anybody really but in particular to those interested in Jewish and Egyptian recent history.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This beautifully written and sensitive book really illustrated the plight of Egyptian Jewry during the time of their expulsion from Egypt in the fifties. The author has magically brought alive from the streets of Cairo and Alexandria the wonderful life her family had been enjoying until this tragic point in their lives. Then pushing on even further, to their new lives to the streets of New York. How did her family, especially her father, manage to continue their lives in the alien surroundings so far from their home.
Not enough has been written about this tragic event, which changed so many lives!
I look forward to reading further works by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
Not enough has been written about this tragic event, which changed so many lives!
I look forward to reading further works by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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A beautifully written, sensitive account of a family in Old Cairo, and their subsequent flight to America.
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This is a marvellous book, beautifully written and all the more interesting as it is the true story of a family who once lived quite happily in Cairo and how their life was... Read more
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I ENJOYED EVERY PAGE OF THIS BOOK,MIGHT BE A BIT BIASED AS MY HUSBUND HAS SIMILAR
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