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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2012
Comparisons to Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis are inevitable; like Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel, this book (also first published in French) presents a girlhood under fire in the war-torn Middle East. Here the setting is 1984 Beirut, a city segregated by religion with Christian and Muslim residents locked in unrelenting civil war. The story’s focus is a single harrowing night when Zeina’s parents, visiting her grandparents a few blocks away, must make their way home thro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012 | History
Like Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel, <i>Persepolis</i>, this French import presents a girlhood under fire in the war-torn Middle East. Here t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More