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A review by aurorabulgaris
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
5.0
I bought that book for a few cents when the library in town was doing a sale to renew their catalog and what a find.
I had no idea what I was buying, I just wanted to read something from a non-western author.
I loved every page of that book!
It's so simply and yet beautifully written. As in many memoirs (or semi/fictionalized versions), nothing much happens except a whole family tree of lives.
I don't want to romanticize the struggle of a region thorn by conflict for decades on end, but there is something comforting in reading about the resilience of life and the normalcy people can establish in a situation which is anything but nornal!
There were also many references to feelings and thoughts that, I think, are truly understood only by immigrants.
I had no idea what I was buying, I just wanted to read something from a non-western author.
I loved every page of that book!
It's so simply and yet beautifully written. As in many memoirs (or semi/fictionalized versions), nothing much happens except a whole family tree of lives.
I don't want to romanticize the struggle of a region thorn by conflict for decades on end, but there is something comforting in reading about the resilience of life and the normalcy people can establish in a situation which is anything but nornal!
There were also many references to feelings and thoughts that, I think, are truly understood only by immigrants.