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Index
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
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
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