Hhe Man in the White Sharkskin Suit - A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, is a memoir of ruin, recounting the exile of Lucette Lagnado''s Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo in 1963 and her father''s heroic and tragic struggle to survive his ''riches to rags'' trajectory. Lagando skillfully recreates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between WWII through Nasser''s rise to power. Set against the stunning portraits of Cairo, Paris, and ultimately New York City, this memoir offers a grand and sweeping story of family, tradition, tragedy and triumph in their epic exodus from paradise. ''Beautifully written. . . . A great personalized telling of Egypt''s complicated history in the last half of the 20th century.''-Fareed Zakaria Freshman Common Read: Drury University

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lucette Lagnado, Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Lucette Matalon Lagnado
• Verlag: Ecco Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9780060822187
• ISBN: 978-0-06-082218-7
• Seiten: 368
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Biographien, Autobiographien; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: MEMOIR AMERICAN VOICES, COMPOSITION & WRITING: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: MEMOIR WORLD VIEWS, JEWISH STUDIES: WOMEN & JEWISH, WOMEN'S STUDIES: MEMOIR & BIO, HISTORY: Essays, JEWISH STUDIES: MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Jewish, HISTORY: Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt)