Novels Dedicated To The Armenian Genocide
The novel "Forty days of Musa dagh", written by Franz Werfel in 1933, is about a band of Armenians, 5000 strong, that defend themselves against persecution by the Turks when the Armenian Genocide was performing by the government of Young Turks. |
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Mayrig means "mother" in Armenian, and the author starts the book with a simple and sad sentence: "Mayrig is dying." Then he goes back to his gloomy childhood, and tells a story that astonishes the reader. It is the history of Armenian people; the history of 1915 massacres of 1.5 million Armenians, committed by the Turkish government. It is a wonderful piece of literature, an amazing story of Ashot Malakian-an Armenian boy who had to leave his parents' homeland, and adopt to a new society,in Marcel, France. |