Author : Agop J Hacikyan
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Book Synopsis A Summer Without Dawn by : Agop J Hacikyan
Download or read book A Summer Without Dawn written by Agop J Hacikyan and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping, well-crafted historical, Canadian authors Hacikyan and Soucy recreate the 1915 Armenian genocide through the eyes of a young family. When orders come down to leave their Muslim-Christian town of Sivas (to "purify Anatolia of foreigners"), Vartan Balian--a 38-year-old Armenian medical officer in the Ottoman army and a former writer of revolutionary Armenian history--must decide how to follow the sultan's dictates and also protect his wife, Maro, and their six-year-old son, Tomas. Before he can make his move, however, Vartan is arrested in conjunction with a failed Armenian rebellion, while Maro and Tomas are forced into a wretched convoy of deportees. Saved from execution by his boyhood friends, Vartan assumes the identity of a Turkish lieutenant and goes on the run. Meanwhile, Maro and Tomas are seized by a Turkish governor and pressed into his polygamous harem