House of Stone

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"In the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family's ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather's once magnificnet estate in near ruins, devastated by war. One year later, Shadid returned to Marjayounn not to chronicle the violence, but to rebuild in its wake."--back cover