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Out of Place: A Memoir

Paperback • 2000 • English

Out of Place: A Memoir

By Edward W. Said

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About the book

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...Show more

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9780679730675

Publisher

VINTAGE

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Out of Place: A Memoir

Format

Paperback

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