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Out of Place by
Edward Said
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From one of the
most important intellectuals of our time come 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 young man's coming of age and
the genesis of a great modern thinker.
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