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Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia
Armen T. Marsoobian
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Description for Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia
Hardcover. Unique portrait of life before, during and after the Armenian Genocide Num Pages: 368 pages, 70 integrated bw. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; FT; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 914.
The Armenian world was shattered by the 1915 genocide. Not only were thousands of lives lost but families were displaced and the narrative threads that connected them to their own past and homelands were forever severed. Many have been left with only fragments of their family histories: a story of survival passed on by a grandparent who made it through the cataclysm or, if lucky, an old photograph of a distant, silent, ancestor. By contrast the Dildilian family chose to speak. Two generations gave voice to their experience in lengthy written memoirs, in diaries and letters, and most unusually in ... Read more
The Armenian world was shattered by the 1915 genocide. Not only were thousands of lives lost but families were displaced and the narrative threads that connected them to their own past and homelands were forever severed. Many have been left with only fragments of their family histories: a story of survival passed on by a grandparent who made it through the cataclysm or, if lucky, an old photograph of a distant, silent, ancestor. By contrast the Dildilian family chose to speak. Two generations gave voice to their experience in lengthy written memoirs, in diaries and letters, and most unusually in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784532116
SKU
V9781784532116
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About Armen T. Marsoobian
Armen T. Marsoobian is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. He is a descendent of the Dildilian family.
Reviews for Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia
A formidable work of research that is partly microhistory, partly political history. At times the book reads like a novel.... Marsoobian describes powerfully the struggle to survive and its impact on the human psyche.
Elif Shafak, The New Statesman
Above all, Marsoobian gives a feel for the horror, the fear and the sometimes quite unreasonable hope that the ... Read more
Elif Shafak, The New Statesman
Above all, Marsoobian gives a feel for the horror, the fear and the sometimes quite unreasonable hope that the ... Read more