"Anthony Shadid’s beautifully rendered memoir is a rich account of a man’s gradual immersion into the world of the Middle East and the culture of the Levant, a kingdom almost unrecognizable today, where the rooms and hallways of his great-grandfather’s house tell Reviews: · Anthony Shadid's House of Stone seems an extraordinary tale of one man's quest to make sense of a chaotic part of the world, while at the same time dealing with chaos within his own life following the end of his marriage. There are times when Shadid's personal quest seems almost an obsession but at 2nd glance, he is not just tilting at a windmill in the Levant but attempting to give his /5. ANTHONY SHADID(), author of Night Draws Near, was an unparalleled chronicler of the human stories behind the news. He gained attention and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, for his front-page reports in the Washington Post from Iraq. As Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, he covered the Arab Spring from Egypt to Libya (where he was held captive in March, ) to Syria.
Anthony Shadid. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (p) ISBN 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. 'House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East' by Anthony Shadid (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) His narrative moves along lines of three contrapuntal melodies, each with its.
House of Stone is the story of Shadid's renovation project in southern Lebanon, interjected with his reconstruction of the history of his family in Marjayoun, and their emigration to the United States. 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. A book conceived as an introspective project of personal recovery — as well as a meditation on politics, identity, craft, and beauty in the Levant — now stands as a memorial. It is a fitting one because of the writing skill and deep feeling [Shadid] unobtrusively displays.".
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