贝鲁特断章：战争回忆录 Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir

基本信息

Publisher：Outsider Editions

Publication date：July 14, 2026

Language：English

Print length：320 pages

ISBN-10：0385552270

ISBN-13：978-0385552271

Item Weight：10.9 ounces

Dimensions：5 x 0.88 x 7.5 inches

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书籍简介

这部里程碑式的回忆录，是对生存、记忆、尊严以及坚守自身在世界中位置的顽强之美的颂歌，曾被《纽约时报》评为1990年度好书。

让·萨义德·马克迪西（Jean Said Makdisi）——巴勒斯坦作家、学者，已故评论家爱德华·萨义德的妹妹——自20世纪70年代起便居住在贝鲁特。《贝鲁特碎片》于1990年出版，至今仍是一部笔触细腻、饱含深情的佳作，记录了黎巴嫩长达十五年的内战以及1982年以色列入侵期间的平民生活。

这部作品既冷静客观又饱含深切同情，以叙事者的优雅笔触和细腻的情感，描绘了日常生活的挣扎求生——破碎的街道、突如其来的寂静、脆弱的家庭仪式。珍妮和她的丈夫选择留在饱受战火蹂躏的贝鲁特，抚养孩子并在当地大学任教。她用镜头捕捉到了经历灾难的恐惧与温情。

在持续不断的地区暴力和全球范围内的流离失所与抹杀的背景下，《贝鲁特碎片》以罕见的、多层次的视角探讨了身份认同、坚韧不拔以及在世界试图将你连根拔起时坚守家园的激进行为。

A landmark memoir that stands as a testament to survival, memory, dignity, and the stubborn beauty of insisting on one’s place in the world, named a 1990 New York Times Notable Book.

Jean Said Makdisi—Palestinian writer, scholar, and sister of the late critic Edward Said—has lived in Beirut since the 1970s. First published in 1990, Beirut Fragments endures as a beautifully wrought, intimate record of civilian life through Lebanon’s fifteen-year civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

At once clear-eyed and deeply compassionate, a portrait of everyday survival—shattered streets, sudden silences, the fragile rituals of family life—told with a storyteller’s grace and emotional precision. As Jean and her husband choose to remain in their war-torn city, raising their children and teaching at local universities, she captures both the terror and the tenderness of living through catastrophe.

Amid ongoing regional violence and global patterns of displacement and erasure, Beirut Fragments offers a rare, layered perspective on identity, endurance, and the radical act of staying put when the world tries to unroot you.

作者简介

珍·赛义德·马克迪西是一位巴勒斯坦作家和学者。她出生于耶路撒冷的一个巴勒斯坦家庭，在埃及开罗长大，之后前往美国求学。1972年，马克迪西和家人从自1962年起居住的美国搬到黎巴嫩贝鲁特，并在贝鲁特大学学院教授英语和人文课程。他们一直留在贝鲁特，经历了黎巴嫩内战和1982年以色列大规模入侵黎巴嫩。她对贝鲁特衰落的观察，为她的书——回忆录《贝鲁特碎片》（Beirut Fragments）——提供了素材，该书于1990年由Persea Books出版。2005年，她出版了《姨妈、母亲和我：一位阿拉伯女性的回忆录》（Teta, Mother, and Me, An Arab Woman’s Memoir，伦敦：Saqi Books），该书于次年由诺顿出版社以《姨妈、母亲和我：三代阿拉伯女性》（Teta, Mother and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women）为名再次出版。

JEAN SAID MAKDISI is a Palestinian writer and scholar. She was born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian family and was raised in Cairo, Egypt, before leaving to study in the U.S. In 1972, Makdisi and her family moved from the United States, where they had lived since 1962, to Beirut, Lebanon, where she taught English and humanities at Beirut University College. They remained in Beirut throughout the Lebanese Civil War and the massive Israeli invasion of Lebanon in1982. Her observations of Beirut’s decline would inform her first book, the memoir Beirut Fragments, published by Persea Books in 1990. In 2005, she published Teta, Mother, and Me, An Arab Woman’s Memoir (London: Saqi Books), which was published the following year (Norton) as Teta, Mother and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women.