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Informationen zum Autor Antonia Arslan, who lives in Padua, has a degree in archaeology and was Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Padua. Skylark Farm is her first novel. Klappentext 'This soul-shaking novel feels like a masterpiece.' Booklist At the age of thirteen, Yerwant left his home in the Anatolian hills of Turkey to study at an Armenian boarding school in Venice. Now, in May 1915, after forty years, he is planning a long-awaited reunion with his family at their homestead, Skylark Farm. But while joyful preparations for Yerwant's arrival are being made in the town of his birth, Italy enters the Great War and closes its borders. At the same time, in Turkey, Yerwant's family begins a brutal odyssey of hunger and humiliation at the hands of the Young Turks, determined to rid their nation of minorities. Fighting violence with love, courage and hope, four of the family's children set out on a dangerous and daring course of their own: to reach Yerwant, and safety, in Italy. 'An Armenian Schindler's List.' Kirkus £8.99 Fiction Cover design by [ ] Images courtesy of [ ] www.groveatlantic.co.uk For the millions who loved The Kite Runner and The Bookseller of Kabul , Skylark Farm is a novel of family survival and an epic journey to safety. Zusammenfassung For the millions who loved The Kite Runner and The Bookseller of Kabul, Skylark Farm is a novel of family survival and an epic journey to safety.
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Sombre and richly steeped in symbolism, Arslan's is a book to savour. Catherine Taylor Guardian
