The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World Tapa blanda - 2008
de Lucette Lagnado
This poignant and breathtaking memoir from an award-winning "Wall Street Journal" reporter recounts the exile of her family from Egypt and her father's heroic and tragic struggle to survive his riches-to-rags trajectory.
Descripción de contraportada
Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, Leon loses everything and his family is forced to flee, abandoning a life once marked by beauty and luxury to plunge into hardship and poverty, as they take flight for any country that would have them.
A vivid, heartbreaking, and powerful inversion of the American dream, Lucette Lagnado's unforgettable memoir is a sweeping story of family, faith, tradition, tragedy, and triumph set against the stunning backdrop of Cairo, Paris, and New York.
Winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a "brilliant, crushing book" and the New Yorker as a memoir of ruin "told without melodrama by its youngest survivor," The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit recounts the exile of the author's Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo in 1963 and her father's heroic and tragic struggle to survive his "riches to rags" trajectory.
Detalles
- Título The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
- Autor Lucette Lagnado
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 368
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Ecco Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2008-07-01
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780060822187 / 006082218X
- Peso 0.6 libras (0.27 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.37 x 6.09 x 0.88 pulgadas (18.72 x 15.47 x 2.24 cm)
- Nivel de lectura 1170
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Temas
- Cultural Region: French
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Cultural Region: North Africa
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Cairo (Egypt), Matalon Lagnado, Lucette
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- New York Times Book Review, 08/03/2008, Page 20
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