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

Lagnado, Lucette

Brossura

ISBN 10: 006082218X ISBN 13: 9780060822187

Casa editrice: Ecco Pr, 2008

Riassunto

The daughter of a once-successful Jewish boulevardier traces her youth in post-World War II Cairo before and after Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, an event that caused her family to lose everything and forced them to flee to America. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

...stunning memoir...a deeply affecting portrait of her family and its journey from war-time Cairo to the New World. Like André Aciman in his now classic memoir, Out of Egypt (1994), she conjures a vanished world with elegiac ardor and uncommon grace, and like Mr. Aciman she calculates the emotional costs of exile with an unsentimental but forgiving eye....Writing in crystalline yet melodious prose, Ms. Lagnado gives us an indelible gallery of family portraits... (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

...many reasons to read this crushing, brilliant book...[Lagnado] so effortlessly captures the characters in her family, and the Egyptian metropolis around them, that the reader may fail to notice the overwhelming research buttressing this story. But then you stumble upon a wonderfully vivid detail...Lagnado is equally adept at maintaining suspense...one final kiss from the Lagnados to their beloved city. (New York Times Book Review)

This memoir of an Egyptian Jewish family s gradual ruin is told without melodrama by its youngest survivor, now a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. (The New Yorker)

L'autore:

Born in Cairo, Lucette Lagnado and her family were forced to flee Egypt as refugees when she was a small child, eventually coming to New York. She joined The Wall Street Journal in 1996, and has since been the recipient of numerous awards. She is the co-author of CHILDREN OF THE FLAMES: DR. MENGELE AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE TWINS OF AUSCHWITZ, which has been translated into nearly a dozen foreign languages. Currently, Lagnado is a senior special writer and investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She and her husband, Douglas Feiden, reside in New York City. She received the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in 2008 for THE MAN IN THE WHITE SHARKSKIN SUIT.

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• Editore: Ecco Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 006082218X
• ISBN 13: 9780060822187
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 340