Out Of Place: A Memoir

Synopsis

Winner of the new yorker book award for nonfiction • 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. "engrossing. [said has] an almost proustian feel for smells, sounds, sights, and telling anecdotes.