“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.

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

Biographies & Memoirs

LAGNADO, LUCETTE

Community & Culture

Ecco

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.)

“[Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose.” —New York Times
Lucette Lagnado’s acclaimed, award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (“[a] crushing, brilliant book” —New York Times Book Review) told the powerfully moving story of her Jewish family’s exile from Egypt. In her extraordinary follow-up memoir, The Arrogant Years, Lagnado revisits her first years in America, and describes a difficult coming-of-age tragically interrupted by a bout with cancer at age 16. At once a poignant mother and daughter story and a magnificent snapshot of the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, The Arrogant Years is a stunning work of memory and resilience that ranges from Cairo to Brooklyn and beyond—the unforgettable true story of a remarkable young woman’s determination to push past the boundaries of her life and make her way in the wider world.

The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

Ecco/Harpercollins

Humor & Entertainment

The Arrogant Years Lib/E: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

Harpercollins

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit Lib/E: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

L'Homme Au Complet Blanc. Du Caire A New York, L'Exil D'Une Famille Juive

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Metropolis

CAIRO SUITE FG (FORMATO GRANDE) (Spanish Edition)

Punto de Lectura

Cairo Suite

Suma

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