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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By: Lucette Lagnado

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By: Lucette Lagnado

“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.

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Harper Collins

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0061827509

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9780061827501

The Arrogant Years

One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

By: Lucette Lagnado

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The Arrogant Years

One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

By: Lucette Lagnado

The author of the award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit—hailed by the New York Times book review as a “crushing, brilliant book”—returns with this, the extraordinary follow-up memoir In The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, Lucette Lagnado offered a heartbreaking portrait of her father, Leon, a successful Cairo boulevardier who was forced to take flight with his family during the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, and of her family’s struggle to rebuild a new life in a new land. In this much-anticipated new memoir, Lagnado tells the story of her mother, Edith, coming of age in a magical old Cairo of dusty alleyways and grand villas inhabited by pashas and their wives. Then Lagnado revisits her own early years in America—first, as a schoolgirl in Brooklyn’s immigrant enclaves, where she dreams of becoming the fearless Mrs. Emma Peel of The Avengers, and later, as an “avenging” reporter for some of America’s most prestigious newspapers. A stranger growing up in a strange land, when she turns sixteen Lagnado’s adolescence is further complicated by cancer. Its devastating consequences would rob her of her “arrogant years”—the years defined by an overwhelming sense of possibility, invincibility, and confidence. Lagnado looks to the women sequestered behind the wooden screen at her childhood synagogue, to the young coeds at Vassar and Columbia in the 1970s, to her own mother and the women of their past in Cairo, and reflects on their stories as she struggles to make sense of her own choices.

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420

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0061803677

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9780061803673

Children of the Flames

Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz

By: Lucette Matalon Lagnado,Sheila Cohn Dekel

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Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz

By: Lucette Matalon Lagnado,Sheila Cohn Dekel

During World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel of Death is told in counterpoint to the lives of the survivors, who until now have kept silent about their heinous death-camp ordeals.

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Penguin

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0140169318

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9780140169317

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By: Lucette Lagnado

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My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

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Children of the Flames

Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz

By: Lucette Matalon Lagnado,Sheila Cohn Dekel

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Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz

By: Lucette Matalon Lagnado,Sheila Cohn Dekel

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Children of the Flames

Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz

By: Lucette Matalon Lagnado,Sheila Cohn Dekel

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Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz

By: Lucette Matalon Lagnado,Sheila Cohn Dekel

In this remarkable, evocative narrative, the life of Auschwitz's Angel of Death is told in counterpoint to the lives of the surviving twins, who are themselves now inching into middle or old age. In stories that abound with ambiguity, anger, and redemptive hope, we encounter them first as children beginning their descent into Auschwitz by witnessing their entire families being led away to be killed. Later, we see the twins grateful for the soup and bread Mengele procured for them and reassured by his moments of seemingly genuine affection, yet terrified, always, by what he forced them to endure.

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0283061049

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9780283061042

Book's by Lucette Lagnado

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

The Arrogant Years

The Arrogant Years

Children of the Flames

Children of the Flames

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

Children of the Flames

Children of the Flames

Children of the Flames

Children of the Flames

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