Mariner Books
House of Stone
Key Metrics
- Anthony Shadid
- Mariner Books
- Paperback
- 9780544002197
- 7.9 X 5.2 X 0.9 inches
- 0.65 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
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 Bio
Anthony Shadid was a two-time Pulitzer prize winner journalist and was based in Beirut and Baghdad. He was foreign correspondent for The New York Times.
Previously he worked for The Washington Post, Boston Globe, and the Associated Press.
Shadid graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He was killed by a Israeli sniper bullet in the West Bank while reporting for the Boston Globe.
Source: The Boston Globe
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