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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