Out of Place
A childhood between Jerusalem, Cairo and Beirut, and never being wholly at home in any language.
Said’s memoir, written while he was ill with leukaemia, covers a childhood between Jerusalem, Cairo and Lebanon and an adolescence sent to American boarding school. It is about never being wholly at home in any of the languages or countries he belonged to, and it is far more tender than the criticism.
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