House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
By Anthony ShadidEvocative and beautifully written, "House of Stone" . . . should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the agonies and hopes of the Middle East. Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize winning historian and author of "Crossing Mandelbaum Gate"
In rebuilding his family home in southern Lebanon, Shadid commits an extraordinarily generous act of restoration for his wounded land, and for us all. Annia Ciezadlo, author of "Day of Honey"
In spring 2011, Anthony Shadid was one of four "New York Times" reporters captured in Libya, cuffed and beaten, as that country was seized by revolution. When he was freed, he went home. Not to Boston or Beirut where he lives or to Oklahoma City, where his Lebanese-American family had settled and where he was raised. Instead, he returned to his great-grandfather s estate, a house that, over three years earlier, Shadid had begun to rebuild.
"House of Stone" is the story of a battle-scarred home and a war correspondent s jostled spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other. In this poignant and resonant memoir, the author of the award-winning "Night Draws Near "creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house s renewal alongside his family s flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America. In the process, Shadid memorializes a lost world, documents the shifting Middle East, and provides profound insights into this volatile landscape. "House of Stone" is an unforgettable meditation on war, exile, rebirth, and the universal yearning for home."
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 336 pages
- English
- 0547134665
- 9780547134666
About Anthony Shadid
anthony shadid was a foreign correspondent for the new york times. until december 2009, he served as the baghdad bureau chief of the washington post. over Read More about Anthony Shadid
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