Scenes from an Armenian Childhood. Translated ... by Mischa Kudian | 
pickIt may have taken me 3 months to read my #readaroundtheworld #armenia book, but I enjoyed it! It very much was ‘scenes‘, vignettes, short stories, published in Armenian in 1930. It reminded me of Laurie Lee or Dylan Thomas - gentle & poetic, with a sense of fun (the camel that sits down in the snow and refuses to budge, his brothers love of raisins etc).
But then there‘s a huge amount of violence, murders,
rockpools Romeo-and-Juliet style deaths, and as you move through the book, increasing tensions between the Turks and Armenians, along with misunderstandings and falsely laid blame. And over it all is the spectre of the Armenian genocide, which is never directly mentioned, but alluded to, with ‘the heavens falling in‘, particularly on his young female friends. I‘m glad I dug this out - I think it deserves to be more widely known. (edited) 1y
BookwormM Sounds like a great choice 1y
