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Lucette Lagnado

    19. September 1956 – 10. Juli 2019

    Lucette Lagnado, eine preisgekrönte Investigativjournalistin, befasst sich in ihren Schriften mit Themen sozialer Ungleichheit und Verletzlichkeit. Ihre Arbeit, die stark von ihrer persönlichen Erfahrung als Flüchtling geprägt ist, beleuchtet komplexe Fragen rund um Gesundheitswesen, Alter und Armut. Lagnado deckt auf meisterhafte Weise die Geschichten der Ausgegrenzten auf und bietet den Lesern tiefe Einblicke in menschliche Widerstandsfähigkeit und Zerbrechlichkeit. Ihre Prosa zeichnet sich durch journalistische Präzision und eine einfühlsame Perspektive aus, durch die sie menschliche Erfahrungen darstellt.

    The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
    Die Zwillinge des Dr. Mengele
    • The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit

      A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

      • 368 Seiten
      • 13 Lesestunden

      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 of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, Leon loses everything and his family is forced to flee, abandoning a life once marked by beauty and luxury to plunge into hardship and poverty, as they take flight for any country that would have them. A vivid, heartbreaking, and powerful inversion of the American dream, Lucette Lagnado's unforgettable memoir is a sweeping story of family, faith, tradition, tragedy, and triumph set against the stunning backdrop of Cairo, Paris, and New York. Winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a "brilliant, crushing book" and the New Yorker as a memoir of ruin "told without melodrama by its youngest survivor," The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit recounts the exile of the author's Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo in 1963 and her father's heroic and tragic struggle to survive his "riches to rags" trajectory.

      The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
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