The arrogant years
Subtitle: one girl's search for her lost youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
By: Lucette Lagnado
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780061803673
Subjects: Egyptian Americans; Jews; Biography; Egyptian Jews
Description: An autobiography of Lagnado's early years as an immigrant from Cairo to Brooklyn, reflecting on her own mother's story as she makes her own choices.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-402).
Table of contents: title: The curse of Alexandra. The secret of the Pasha's wife ; The Alley of the Pretty One ; The bride who set herself on fire ; The bonesetter of Mouski ; The porcelain dolls of Malaka Mazli Street; title: Rebuilding the hearth. The legend of Agent Extraordinary ; Passion play on Sixty-seventy Street; The healing powers of iodine ; The errant sister ; The passion of the fast ; The Messiah is a woman ; The tragedy of the navy blue blazer ; The advance of the little porcelain dolls; title: Cities of refuge. The shrine on the mountain ; The fall of afterword ; The spring of nevermore ; The Princess of West 116th Street; title: The lady in the pink bow. The lost art of penmanship ; The woman against the wall ; An earthquake in Cairo; title: The book of lamentations. The verse of consolation; title: Inside the Pasha's library.