Etel Adnan's latest collection of prose maps the city of Beirut and its clutter of current affairs
17th Nov 2006, 07:42 GMT
It is tempting to wonder what kind of writer Etel Adnan would have been had she grown up in southern California instead of in Lebanon. Had she come from a place with a less volatile recent history, Adnan might make a pair with Kate Braverman, a Californian whose novels and poetry, like Adnan's, are feminine, internally directed.
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