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When Ellis Douek was nine, his mother insisted that he take up embroidery, in case he became a surgeon when he grew up. Of course she was right, for he became consultant ENT surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in London. The Douek parents had the unerring quality of belonging in whichever country they lived Egypt, the Sudan, Columbia and, finally, England. Ellis Douek’s memoirs describe the hedonism of life in Egypt, the Suez Crisis which uprooted them, 1950’s Bradford, and Paris. He began his medial training in Paris where he, his sister Claudia, and brother Zaki lived free of adult supervision. His training continued in London during a time of smog, digs, and landladies. Ellis’s days as an army medic provide hilarious accounts of whisky-sodden soldiers, circumcisions, and bureaucratic procedures.
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Ellis Douek left Egypt to finish his studies in Paris and London, during which time the Suez War broke out and the family was forced to leave forever. He eventually became a famous ENT surgeon at Guy’s hospital in London, from which he has now retired.
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- PublisherHalban Publishers
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1870015878
- ISBN 13 9781870015875
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- Number of pages224
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. London. Peter Halban Publishers Ltd. 2004. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated dust wrapper. Minuscule amount of wear at spine ends; very nearly fine. Book is fine. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the title page. "Wherever I have found myself has seemed the proper place for me to be. I have never been an exile. Ellis Douek describes the constant moving of his family during his childhood as strands of memory. These strands weave between remembrance of the dawn across the Nile and the silence of the feloukas, summers in Alexandria by the beach, and the seeming security and hedonism of it all -between Nasser and the Suez War which disrupted their lives and uprooted them and Bradford in Yorkshire in the 1950s where Ellis finished his schooling, an austere place after the prosperity and warmth of their life in Egypt. Ellis, his sister Claudia who would become Claudia Roden the cookery writer, and their younger brother Zaki all spent time together in Paris, largely unsupervised by adults. Ellis began his medical training there and tried to live the life of a left-wing intellectual, which was perhaps what led his mother to arrange for him to begin medicine all over again, this time in London, during a time of smog, digs and landladies, fish and chips, and the start of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # MAR02.22003
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Book Description Small 8vo. pp vii, 270. Original publisher's black boards with lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated in black and white. Signed presentation copy to Elizabeth Isaacs, inscription at front facing end paper reads, 'To Betty with all good wishes Ellis'. ISBN: 1870015878 Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket. Seller Inventory # C39211
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