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Language
English
Description
In his fifteenth book, the author brings us on a very different kind of journey. This tale travels between Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012, a sweeping historical love story steeped in the author's Armenian heritage, making it his most personal novel to date. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke College, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language....
Author
Language
English
Description
In a novel overflows with a kitchen sink's worth of zany characters, women are front and center: Asya Kazanci, an angst-ridden 19-year-old Istanbulite is the bastard of the title; her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha (who intended to have an abortion), has raised Asya among three generations of complicated and colorful female relations (including religious clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow, Auntie Cevriye). The Kazanci men either die...
6) Calendar
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A mean-spirited, self-absorbed, destructive Canadian-Armenian photographer is hired to take twelve pictures of Armenian historic churches for a calendar. He takes his wife along as a translator, and as they traverse the twelve sites chosen for the calendar with their Armenian guide, their relationship begins to unravel. The photographer returns to Canada with his twelve images, but without his wife, who has gradually felt drawn to her ethnic roots...
8) Ararat
Language
English
Description
Edward, a veteran filmmaker of Armenian descent, is in Toronto shooting a film about the Siege of Van, which lead to the genocide of over a million Armenian people at the hands of Turkis troops. Raffi has been sent to Turkey to shoot background footage for the film. Raffi's mother, Ani, an author and historian, is also involved in the project as a consultant. As Raffi attempts to re-enter Canada with cans of exposed film, he's detained by David, a...
