The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
- Location(s): Brooklyn, Cairo, Paris
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s, 1960s
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 boulevardier who conducted business on...
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land
- Location(s): Israel, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A divorced con-artist and his young daughter sell empty bottles of ‘holy’ air to credulous tourists. In a bombed-out Beirut radio station, a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers with her nightly tales. Ahead of a school ‘Show and...
- Location(s): Estonia
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Suspense
- Era(s): Medieval
Unfortunately people and tribes degenerate. They lose their teeth, forget their language, until finally they’re bending meekly on the fields and cutting straw with a scythe. Leemut, a young boy growing up in the forest, is content living with...