Beirut Fragments A War Memoir | 1.38 MB
Title: Beirut Fragments A War Memoir
Author: Jean Said Makdisi, Angela Flournoy
Category: Nonfiction, History, Military, Other, Biography & Memoir
Language: English | 320 Pages | ISBN: 9780385552288
Description:
A landmark memoir that stands as a testament to survival, memory, dignity, and the stubborn beauty of insisting on one’s place in the world, named a 1990 New York Times Notable Book.
Jean Said Makdisi-Palestinian writer, scholar, and sister of the late critic Edward Said-has lived in Beirut since the 1970s. First published in 1990, Beirut Fragments endures as a beautifully wrought, intimate record of civilian life through Lebanon’s fifteen-year civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
At once clear-eyed and deeply compassionate, a portrait of everyday survival-shattered streets, sudden silences, the fragile rituals of family life-told with a storyteller’s grace and emotional precision. As Jean and her husband choose to remain in their war-torn city, raising their children and teaching at local universities, she captures both the terror and the tenderness of living through catastrophe.
Amid…
A landmark memoir that stands as a testament to survival, memory, dignity, and the stubborn beauty of insisting on one’s place in the world, named a 1990 New York Times Notable Book.
Jean Said Makdisi-Palestinian writer, scholar, and sister of the late critic Edward Said-has lived in Beirut since the 1970s. First published in 1990, Beirut Fragments endures as a beautifully wrought, intimate record of civilian life through Lebanon’s fifteen-year civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
At once clear-eyed and deeply compassionate, a portrait of everyday survival-shattered streets, sudden silences, the fragile rituals of family life-told with a storyteller’s grace and emotional precision. As Jean and her husband choose to remain in their war-torn city, raising their children and teaching at local universities, she captures both the terror and the tenderness of living through catastrophe.
Amid…
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