House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2012

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780547524337

Related ISBNs:

9780544002197

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Date of Addition:

03/02/16

Copyrighted By:

Anthony Shadid

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Travel, Biographies and Memoirs, Communication

Submitted By:

N/A

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

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