Etel Adnan

Fiction. Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege. SITT MARIE ROSE, an SPD bestseller, is the story of a woman abducted by militiamen during the civil war in Lebanon. Already a classic of war literature, it won the France-Pays Arabes award in Paris and has been translated into six languages.

A Novel

Sitt Marie Rose

good lord the depth of the horrors / adnan's magnum opus translated from the french, relentlessly devastating, shimmering and sucker-punch-beautiful, basically poetry for the most part / drops us right into the middle of the chaos and evil of the lebanese civil war (that echo till today), and particularly of the french-aping bourgeois christian right-wing phalangists 

chris

Lamia Hajani

I really enjoyed this book -- once I figured out the structure. Adnan divides each chapter up into a different voice in Part II of this book. Although this was easy to figure out, some voices I could not figure out until I looked them up. Once I did know, however, this book became hauntingly beautiful. It is not a happy ending book -- it is groundingly realistic and instills a feeling in you that lasts long after the last page. 

I would recommend this book to anyone for a quick read. Although clearly catering to a certain viewpoint, I found this book to be very good, albeit sometimes confusing. I also did not like how some of the paragraphs were very long and could not hold my attention (although the book is fairly short).

Laurie Abrial

Comment parler d'un livre qui révèle l'horreur dont est capable l'homme, l'erreur qu'il fait en croyant assouvir les désirs imaginaires d'un Dieu, le racisme dont il est capable à cause d'une prétendue différence ? Bien entendu, personne ne connait ce livre, et personne n'en ressortira grandit.

Sitt Marie Rose A Novel

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