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
?[Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose.??New York Times Lucette Lagnado?s acclaimed, award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (?[a] crushing, brilliant book,? New York Times Boo
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a
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
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 o
