Beirut Fragments

A War Memoir

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Beschreibung

<b>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 <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book.</b><br><br>Jean Said Makdisi—Palestinian writer, scholar, and sister of the late critic Edward Said—has lived in Beirut since the 1970s. First published in 1989, <i>Beirut Fragments</i> endures as a beautifully wrought, intimate record of civilian life through Lebanon’s fifteen-year civil war and the Israeli invasion of the early 1980s.<br><br>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 the local university, she renders both the terror and the tenderness of living through catastrophe.<br><br>Amid ongoing regional violence and global patterns of displacement and erasure, <i>Beirut Fragments</i> offers a rare, layered perspective on identity, endurance, and the radical act of staying put when the world tries to unroot you.<br><br>“Profound, heartbreaking…Makdisi’s…words [are] worth listening to, and her faith in humanity worth emulating.”<br>—<i>The Los Angeles Times</i> Book Review<br><br>“An impassioned cry against indifference.”<br>—<i>The New York Times </i>Book Review

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780385552271

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

190 x 132 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US