Zabelle - A Novel

Klappentext As Zabelle's family assembles for her funeral in present-day Massachusetts, it becomes clear that her children hardly knew her. But as this alternately comic and heartbreaking novel unfolds -- beginning with Zabelle's survival of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey and her subsequent emigration to America for an arranged marriage -- an unforgettable character emerges. Zusammenfassung Zabelle begins in a suburb of Boston with the quiet death of Zabelle Chahasbanian, an elderly widow and grandmother whose history remains vastly unknown to her family. But as the story shifts back in time to Zabelle’s childhood in the waning days of Ottoman Turkey, where she survives the 1915 Armenian genocide and near starvation in the Syrian desert, an unforgettable character begins to emerge. Zabelle’s journey encompasses years in an Istanbul orphanage, a fortuitous adoption by a rich Armenian family, and an arranged marriage to an Armenian grocer who brings her to America where the often comic interactions and battles she wages are forever colored by shadows from the long-lost world of her past.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Kricorian, Kricorian Nancy
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2013
• EAN: 9780802143808
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4380-8
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Armenia, Fiction: general & literary, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Multicultural, Relating to late adulthood / old age