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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit.(The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World)(Brief article)(Book review)
This memoir of an Egyptian Jewish family's gradual ruin is told without melodrama by its youngest survivor, now a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. Lagnado's story hinges on her father, "the Captain," who cut a dashing figure in mid-century Cairo, consorting with British officers and Egyptian royalty at French cafes while his family, neglected, stayed home. At first refusing to join the tide of Jews fleeing Egypt under the Nasser ...
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