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Passage to Ararat | Michael J. Arlen

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In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to forget: Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian, a descendant of a proud people whom conquerors had for centuries tried to exterminate. But perhaps most affectingly, Arlen tells a story as large as a whole people yet as personal as the uneasy bond between a father and a son, offering a masterful account of the affirmation and pain of kinship.

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Passage to Ararat | Michael J. Arlen

I hit Mt Ararat today for #MountTBR 🏔

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Passage to Ararat | Michael J. Arlen

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#backpackeurope travelogue *fictional*
Country 58: in Armenia, I visited Lake Sevan, Geghard monastery, Garni temple, and Mt Ararat, of course!
I learned so much from this book, like it being the 1st whole country to adopt Christianity, and about the Turkish/Ottoman-led Armenian genocide. Arlen's quest to learn about the land of his father and instantly recognizing himself in the people there reminded me of my time visiting Eastern Europe IRL. 4/5

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