House of Stone by Shadid, Anthony
House of Stone by Shadid, Anthony

House of Stone

"Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I've read." -- Philip Caputo, Washington Post In...
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Author: Anthony Shadid
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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House of Stone by Shadid, Anthony

House of Stone

$73.99 $38.37
House of Stone by Shadid, Anthony

House of Stone

$73.99 $38.37
Author: Anthony Shadid
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
"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)

Author: Anthony Shadid
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 02/05/2013
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780544002197


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/12/2013 pg. 40

About the Author
ANTHONY SHADID, author of Night Draws Near, 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. On February 16, 2012, he died while on assignment in Syria.
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