
Out of Place: A Memoir
#1536 of 3,809 books · #525 in Biography & Memoir
Won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2000).
Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said presents an account of the life he lived as a child in the Arab world, and in the U.S. where he attended school, college, and university.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Genre
- Topics
- Palestinian identityExile and displacementChildhood and education
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(2000)
Other awarded books from Edward W. Said
Edward W. Said has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.
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