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Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past

By Peter Balakian

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0465010199, 9780465010196, 9780786743704
LCC
PS3552.A443 Z464 2009
Open Library ID
OL23160639M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2034718 bytes)
Edition
Revised Edition
Pages
304\373
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this tenth anniversary edition of his award-winning memoir,New York Timesbestselling author Peter Balakian has expanded his compelling story about growing up in the baby-boom suburbs of the ’50s and ’60s and coming to understand what happened to his family in the first genocide of the twentieth century—the Ottoman Turkish government’s extermination of more than one million Armenians in 1915.In this new edition, Balakian continues his exploration of the Armenian Genocide with new chapters about his journey to Aleppo and his trip to the Der Zor desert of Syria in his pursuit of his grandmother’s life, bringing us closer to the twentieth century’s first genocide.

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