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

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

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)
ANTHONY SHADID (1968 2012), author of Night Draws Near and Legacy of the Prophet, gained attention and awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, for his front-page reports in the Washington Post from Iraq and for his work as Middle East correspondent for the New York Times. Tragically, on February 16, 2012, he died while on assignment in Syria.

Anthony Shadid (1968-2012), an unrivaled chronicler of the human tales behind the news, won notoriety and prizes for his front-page dispatches in the Washington Post from Iraq, including the Pulitzer Prize. He was the sole Arabic-speaking American reporter on the scene. He won his second Pulitzer as the New York Times' senior Middle East correspondent.

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ISBN 13	9780547134666
ISBN 10	0547134665
Title	House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Author	Anthony Shadid
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2012-02-28
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Commended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2012, Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography) 2012
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