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King, R. L.
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Fiction
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2019
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Magespace Press
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English
β 276 KB
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β¦ LIBER β¦
House of Stone
β Scribed by Shadid, Anthony
- Book ID
- 107249892
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 308 KB
- Series
- A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780547134666
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Evocative and beautifully written, House of Stone...should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the agonies and hopes of the Middle East." Π²Πβ Kai Bird, Pulitzer PrizeΠ²Πβwinning 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." Π²Πβ 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 BeirutΠ²Πβwhere he livesΠ²Πβ 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...
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