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A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
March 2012
On Sale: February 28, 2012
311 pages
ISBN: 0547134665
EAN: 9780547134666
Kindle: B007BFXAXQ
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Non-Fiction Memoir
“Evocative 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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