Epigraph
Prologue: A Courtship in Cairo—Spring 1943
BOOK I: THE CAPTAIN CAIRO, 1942–1963
CHAPTER 1 The Days and Nights of the Captain
CHAPTER 2 The Season of Apricots
CHAPTER 3 The Lost Uncle
CHAPTER 4 The Last Days of Tarboosh
CHAPTER 5 The Prisoner of Malaka Nazli Street
CHAPTER 6 The Essence of a Name
CHAPTER 7 Alexandra in the Promised Land
CHAPTER 8 The Arabic Lesson
CHAPTER 9 The Lament of the Rose Petal Vendors
CHAPTER 10 The Cure for Cat Scratch Fever
CHAPTER 11 The Wayward Daughter
CHAPTER 12 Last Call at the Dark Bar
BOOK II: THE EXILE PARIS, AND THEN NEW YORK, 1963–1982
CHAPTER 13 The Jewel Within
CHAPTER 14 The Missing Birthday
CHAPTER 15 The English Lesson
CHAPTER 16 The Wrath of Sylvia Kirschner
CHAPTER 17 The Hebrew Lesson
CHAPTER 18 The Ballad of the Tie Salesman
CHAPTER 19 Waiting for Elijah
CHAPTER 20 The Captain at War
CHAPTER 21 The House of Prayer
CHAPTER 22 Olives
CHAPTER 23 The Guardian of the Orphans of Jerusalem
CHAPTER 24 Psalms for My Father
Epilogue: Cairo, Finally, and Again—Spring 2005
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
About the Author
Other Books by Lucette Lagnado
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