Blogs in January 2020

The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians 26th January 2020

After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded...

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Three Apples Fell from Heaven 26th January 2020

An elegant memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocide–from the award-winning author of The Brick House. A New York Times Notable Book that imagines the lives of several sufferers of the twentieth century’s first genocide. Anaguil, an Armenian...

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Daughter of War 26th January 2020

ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2009 nominee On the 2009 USBBY list of Outstanding International Books White Pine nominee, 2009 On Resource Link’s Best of 2008 List On the Cooperative Children’s Book Center Best-of-the-Year list for 2009 Canadian...

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Like Water on Stone 26th January 2020

It is 1914, and the Ottoman Empire is crumbling into violence. Beyond Anatolia, in the Armenian Highlands, Shahen Donabedian dreams of going to New York. Sosi, his twin sister, never wants to leave her home, especially now that she...

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An Armenian Sketchbook 26th January 2020

An NYRB Classics Original Few writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine....

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