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    <![CDATA[The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World]]>
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    <![CDATA[ In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamor of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit. But with the fall of King Farouk and Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets are renamed, neighborhoods of their fellow Jews disbanded, and the city purged of all foreign influence, the Lagnados, too, must make their escape. With all of their belongings packed into twenty-six 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 juxta-posed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.<br/><br/>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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        <name><![CDATA[Lucette Lagnado]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[My mom shared this book with me at the beach.  It's a non-fiction account of a family who immigrates to the United States from Egypt in the 1960s.  I'm not typically drawn to non-fiction but this book reads like fiction.  Towards the end, I had a hard time putting it down because I was so engrossed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30080643">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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