Paris, When It's Naked

Fiction. Etel Adnan's novel "PARIS, WHEN IT'S NAKED amazes our retinas, ears, lips, fingertips, and noses with sensing, talking, and envisioning the city of Baudelaire and Delacroix, Mallarme and Picasso, Sartre and Djuna Barnes, Miller and Nin, Vietnamese and African refugees, revolutions and Bohemia. This tale of the Creative Now is told through the fine-tuned sensibility of Etel Adnan, the expatriate poet-painter who knows the French Capital as wholly as she does Beirut and San Francisco, her other homes. She is also the author of SITT MARIE-ROSE, an underground novel of the Lebanese Civil War, and many books of poetry. Her new work is a philosophically charged lyric in prose. The elan vital of every word evokes the eternal present of this wise woman. A highly personal, life-enhancing masterpiece in a deathly age of impersonality. An indespensable book by an indispensable writer" -Morgan Gibson.

• Sitt Marie Rose
• There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other
• Seasons
• In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (POCKET POETS SERIES, NO. 57)
• Night
• Of Cities & Women (Letters To Fawwaz)
• Master of the Eclipse: and Other Stories (Interlink World Fiction)
• The Arab Apocalypse
• Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
• To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (2 Vol. Set)