{"product_id":"beirut-fragments","title":"Beirut Fragments","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBeirut Fragments\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJean Said Flournoy, Angela; Makdisi\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780385552271\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOutsider Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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 1989 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJean Said Makdisi--Palestinian writer, scholar, and sister of the late critic Edward Said--has lived in Beirut since the 1970s. First published in 1989, \u003ci\u003eBeirut Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmid ongoing regional violence and global patterns of displacement and erasure, \u003ci\u003eBeirut Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rare, layered perspective on identity, endurance, and the radical act of staying put when the world tries to unroot you. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Profound, heartbreaking...Makdisi's...words [are] worth listening to, and her faith in humanity worth emulating.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An impassioned cry against indifference.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Review\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Outsider Editions","offers":[{"title":"Beirut Fragments | Jean Said Flournoy, Angela; Makdisi | Paperback | 9780385552271 | New | Memoir 1733517","offer_id":49468566634648,"sku":"1733517","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61kTQOSb6FL.jpg?v=1784044919","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/beirut-fragments","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}