Roots & Branches: A Family Saga Like No Other

By Michael M. Meguid

Book Overview

Volume 1: Roots & Branches

At four years old, he was left behind in postwar Hamburg. Decades later, he would become a surgeon.Michael Meguid was born in Cairo in 1944 to an Egyptian father and a German mother. His earliest memories are of a warm Egyptian household. Then his mother's unhappiness in Egypt tears the family apart, and the small boy is sent to live with his grandparents in impoverished, rule-bound postwar Germany.

What follows is a childhood spent between countries: Hamburg under a strict Prussian grandfather, Manchester, and a Cairo that no longer feels like home. When his father dies suddenly, eleven-year-old Michael must find his own way, with conscription looming and his future uncertain.

Drawing on family journals, letters and photographs, this memoir traces a family story that begins with a fatal accident in an Upper Egyptian village more than a century ago.

Inside this memoirChildhood in 1940s and 1950s Cairo, postwar Hamburg and ManchesterAbandonment, loneliness and the long search for belongingA family saga across Egypt, Germany and England, illustrated with original photographsThe early life of a boy who would grow up to be an internationally recognised surgeon

Honorable Mention, Biography, 2021 New York Book Festival and Hollywood Book Festival.
Book 1 of A Surgeon's Tale. The story continues in Mastering the Knife, his years at medical school in 1960s London. Start the series today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999298852
• ISBN13: 9780999298855
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: M3 Scientific Media
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"