Lucette Lagnado: 2 books
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
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...
The Arrogant Years
One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
“[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...