Out of Place: A Memoir - Hardcover

Said, Edward W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394587391 ISBN 13: 9780394587394

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

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Book by Said Edward W

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The respected scholar and cultural critic describes growning up in Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon and the family and diverse cultural factors that shaped his life. By the author of Orientalism and Peace and Its Discontents. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

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Place is an extraordinary story of exile, a narrative of many departures, 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 Arab landscape of his early years--"the many places and people [who] no longer exist . . . Essentially a lost world." Vast changes occurred as Palestine became Israel, Lebanon was transformed by twenty years of civil war, and the colonial Egypt of King Farouk disappeared forever by 1952.
        
Born in Jerusalem in 1935, Said was the only son in a prosperous family of five children. His ferociously demanding father upheld many Victorian values and ideals, and his adoring mother inspired his love of music, theater, and literature. His aunt Nabiha gave him his first sense of what it meant to leave Palestine, something never discussed by the family.

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0394587391
• ISBN 13: 9780394587394
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 295