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The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
ISBN: 9780061803697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. " Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose." Lucette Lagnado's acclaimed, award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (" a] crushing, brilliant book" --New York Times Book Review) told the powerfully moving story of her Jewish family's exile from Egypt. In her extraordinary follow-up memoir, The Arrogant Years, Lagnado revisits her first years in America, and describes a difficult coming-of-age tragically interrupted by a bout with cancer at age 16. At once a poignant mother and daughter story and a magnificent... " Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose." Lucette Lagnado's acclaimed, award-winning The Man ... |
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77,32 zł |
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
ISBN: 9780060822187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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... Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes dea... |
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69,04 zł |
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
ISBN: 9780140169317 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 of Death is told in counterpoint to the lives of the survivors, who until now have kept silent about their heinous death-camp ordeals. 8 pages of photographs.
During World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this rem...
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81,27 zł |