Author: Lucette Lagnado
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: old, cairo, new, world, exodus, family, sharkskin, suit, jewish, man
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 006082218X
ISBN-13: 9780060822187

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. A vivid, heartbreaking, and powerful inversion of the American dream, Lucette Lagnado’