EAN: 9780679730675

OUT OF PLACE - EDWARD W SAID KARTONIERT (TB)

From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile
and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward
Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood  and so with
this memoir he rediscovers the lost Arab world of his early years in Palestine  Lebanon  and
Egypt.Said writes with great passion and wit about his family and his friends from his
birthplace in Jerusalem  schools in Cairo  and summers in the mountains above Beirut  to
boarding school and college in the United States  revealing an unimaginable world of rich 
colorful characters and exotic eastern landscapes. Underscoring all is the confusion of
identity the young Said experienced as he came to terms with the dissonance of being an
American citizen  a Christian and a Palestinian  and  ultimately  an outsider. Richly detailed
moving  often profound  Out of Place depicts a young man's coming of age and the genesis of a
great modern thinker.

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