Goodbye, Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (878 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804795436 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Great book!. "Short But Hardly Sweet" according to Raw Banans. This is a short book--about 180 pages. I'm glad it was short---it was terribly painful to read. Not because of poor writing by Panian. The author did an excellent job of telling the story of the Armenian genocide--without dramatics. I think the fact that the book was written as the remembrance of the little boy who experienced it--is why it was so hard to read. I think this segment of the genocide--the orphans who had lost all their families and then were told to forget about them and. A History Lesson- Should be Required Reading This memoir is the incredible story of a 5 year old boy who was the sole survivor of his family during the slaughtering and deportation of thousands of Armenians living in Turkey in 1915. He endured the exile from his town in Turkey into the Syrian desert after his father was murdered, then witnessed family and friends dying from starvation, disease, and more mass murder at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Then he continued to suffer hunger and mistreatment in the Antoura orphanage whi
When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Ultimately, Karnig Panian survived the Armenian genocide and the deprivations that followed. He paints a painfully rich and detailed picture of the lives and agency of Armenian orphans during the darkest days of World War I. His story shows us how even young children recognize injustice and can organize against it, how they can form a sense of identity that they will fight to maintain. Four years later, American aid workers found him at an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon. He was among nearly 1,000 Armenian and 400 Kurdish children who had been abandoned by the Turkish administrators, left to survive at the orphanage without adult care.This memoir offers the extraordinary story of what he endured
"Goodbye, Antoura stands out as a telling, concise, and human portrait of a painful and traumatic component of the Armenian genocide. Beyond academic circles, the memoir could find a special audience among young adults, much as The Diary of Anne Frank has done. Panian's skill at weaving the celestial with the hellish is a true gift to the reader; through Panian's work, one can experience intimately this knot of angst and awe that is often concomitant with being a thoughtful child."—Nora Lessersohn,Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association