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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
A Wall Streeet Journal reporter, Lagnado evokes not just the extraordinary life of her marvelously social father (the "boulevardier of Cairo), but also the now-vanished world of Cario before Gamal Abdel Nasser and the exodus of the Jews. Landing eventually in Brooklyn in the 1960s, it's the nightclubs, markets, synagogues, cemetaries and wheeling-dealing of colonial Cairo that animated her father Leon. (EGY215, $14.99)
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (Paperback)
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.
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (Paperback)
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.
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (Paperback)
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...
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