| Author/Contributor(s): | Arlen, Michael J. |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl |
| Date: | 04/01/2006 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.