Perhaps she is called Antigone

Their names are Tatiana, Fatia, Juliette, Dolma, Emilie, Keiko, perhaps Antigone?
Martine Delerm’s book is a powerful and poetic account of a sacrificed childhood, the victim of a violence that spares no one, especially girls, eternal prisoners of the barbed wire woven for them by the world, who here are given a multiple voice.
By illustrating her text with ephemeral watercolours in a surrealist mood, Martine Delerm highlights the fragility of these little girls all over the world, victims of pain, injustice, contempt and enslavement.
This book, with its universal title, is simply a tribute to children who suffer and to those who stand up against the shame of wars and the misdeeds of their elders.

With Antigone comes the hope of freedom, the freedom to say ‘NO’. But the territory of this freedom is very narrow…

With an afterword by the author and the full text at the end of the book.