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Auteur(s) : Matalon Lagnado, Lucette (1956-2019) Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The man in the white sharkskin suit [Texte imprimé] : my family's exodus from old Cairo to the new world / Lucette Lagnado

Édition : 1st ed.

Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Ecco, c2007

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-340 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-340)
Lagnado re-creates the cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business in his signature white sharkskin suit on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton. But with the fall of King Farouk, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets are renamed, neighborhoods of their fellow Jews disbanded, and the city purged of foreign influence, the Lagnados, too, must make their escape. With all of their belongings packed into 26 suitcases, their jewels and gold coins hidden in sealed tins of marmalade, Leon and his family depart 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.--From publisher description

Sujet(s) : Juifs -- Le Caire (Égypte) -- 1900-1945 Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Juifs égyptiens -- New York (N.Y., États-Unis) -- 1945-.... Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Égypte -- 1936-1952 (Farouk) Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet