House of Stone by Anthony Shadid
"Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I've read." -- Philip Caputo, Washington PostIn 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), 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 | 9780544002197 |
| ISBN 10 | 0544002199 |
| Title | House of Stone |
| Author | Anthony Shadid |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Year published | 2013-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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