Out of Place (Granta Classics) - Tapa blanda

"Absorbing. . . . An almost Proustian portrait." --"The New York Times""Said has turned the writing of a memoir itself into perhaps the most profound type of homecoming a perennial exile can know." --"The Village Voice Literary Supplement""Engrossing. . . . [Said has] an almost Proustian feel for smells, sounds, sights, and telling anecdotes." --"The New York Review of Books""If autobiography is above all a means of explaining one's self to oneself, then Out of Place . . . must be seen as a triumph." --"The Boston Globe" " Absorbing. . . . An almost Proustian portrait." --"The New York Times" " Said has turned the writing of a memoir itself into perhaps the most profound type of homecoming a perennial exile can know." --"The Village Voice Literary Supplement" " Engrossing. . . . [Said has] an almost Proustian feel for smells, sounds, sights, and telling anecdotes." --"The New York Review of Books" " If autobiography is above all a means of explaining one's self to oneself, then Out of Place . . . must be seen as a triumph." --"The Boston Globe"

Born in 1935 to a half-Lebanese half-Palestinian mother and Palestinian father who had American citizenship, and raised in Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon, Edward Said (1935-2003) always lived with a divided identity. Out of Place is a beautiful, candid memoir which traces the author's growing sense of himself as an outsider: Arab but Christian, Palestinian but the holder of a US passport, having an improbably British first name yoked to an Arabic surname. It is a moving and honest account of exile and dislocation from an influential critic and thinker who straddled the divide between East and West, and in the process redefined Western perceptions of the East and of the plight of Palestinian people.