Sitt Marie Rose
By Etel Adnan
Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege
This extraordinary novel on the Civil War in Lebanon won the France-Pays Arabes award in Paris and has been translated into six languages. Sitt Marie Rose is part of Comparative Literature, World Literature, Women's Studies and Middle East Studies curricula at more than thirty universities and colleges in the U.S.
The incredulity toward meta-narratives that Lyotard characterizes as the post-modernist condition is embodied in the narrative technique of Sitt Marie Rose.
—Thomas Foster, PMLA Journal
The story is about a handful of characters and how their relationships are affected by the war...the real protagonist is the city itself. Since the story is narrated in a staccato style, the text takes on a quality reminiscent of Picasso's Guernica.
—Celfan Review, Temple University
Etel Adnan tells her story in a charged composite of many different forms of discourse: conversation, news bulletins, monologues, interviews and commentary...journalism and film. The influence of the distinguished Arabic poetic tradition, of which she is herself a part, is also evident.
—Elizabeth Fernea
1990 5th Edition 105 pages $12.95 ISBN 0-942996-33-X
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