Name: House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
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Author: Shadid, Anthony
ISBN: 9780544002197

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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anthony Shadid

Publisher

Mariner Books

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

315

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN

0544002199

ISBN13

9780544002197

Synopsis "House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East "

"Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I've read." -- Philip Caputo, Washington Post In the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family's ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather's once magnificent estate in near ruins, devastated by war. One year later, Shadid returned to Marjayoun, not to chronicle the violence, but to rebuild in its wake. So begins the story of a battle-scarred home and a journalist's wounded spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. In this bittersweet and resonant memoir, Shadid creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house's renewal alongside the history of his family's flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America around the turn of the twentieth century. In the process, he memorializes a lost world and provides profound insights into a shifting Middle East. This paperback edition includes an afterword by the journalist Nada Bakri, Anthony Shadid's wife, reflecting on his legacy. "A poignant dedication to family, to home, and to history . . . Breathtaking." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Entertaining, informative, and deeply moving . . . House of Stone will stand a long time, for those fortunate enough to read it." -- Telegraph (London)

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