Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past
10 best books like Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past (Peter Balakian): Not Even My Name: A True Story, The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide, Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility, Armenian Golgotha, They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide, Three Apples Fell from Heaven, Forgotten Fire, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, There Was and There Was Not: A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
Not Even My Name: A True Story
| Author | Thea Halo |
| ISBN | 0312277016 |
Not Even My Name is a rare eyewitness account of the horrors of a little-known, often denied genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey were killed during and after World War I. As told by Sano Halo to her daughter, Thea, this is the story of her survival of...
The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide
| Author | Margaret Ajemian Ahnert |
| ISBN | 0825305128 |
In 1915, Armenian Christians in Turkey were forced to convert to Islam, barred from speaking their language, and often driven out of their homes as the Turkish army embarked on a widespread campaign of intimidation and murder. In this riveting book, Margaret Ajemian Ahnert relates her mother Ester's...
Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide
| Author | Donald E. Miller |
| ISBN | 0520219562 |
Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation. Yet their story has received scant attention. Through interviews with a hundred elderly...
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
| Author | Taner Akçam |
| ISBN | 0805079327 |
A landmark assessment of Turkish culpability in the Armenian genocide, the first history of its kind by a Turkish historian
In 1915, under the cover of a world war, some one million Armenians were killed through starvation, forced marches, forced exile, and mass acts of slaughter. Although Armenians...
Never before in English, Armenian Golgotha is the most dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide.
On April 24, 1915, the priest Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other intellectuals and leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community....
They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide
| Author | Ronald Grigor Suny |
| ISBN | 0691147302 |
A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversary
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number...
Three Apples Fell from Heaven
| Author | Micheline Aharonian Marcom |
| ISBN | 1573229156 |
An elegant memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocide--from the award-winning author of The Brick House.
A New York Times Notable Book that imagines the lives of several sufferers of the twentieth century's first genocide. Anaguil, an Armenian girl taken in by Turkish neighbors after the...
| Author | Adam Bagdasarian |
| ISBN | 0440229170 |
A National Book Award Finalist.
In 1915 Vahan Kenderian is living a life of privilege as the youngest son of a wealthy Armenian family in Turkey. This secure world is shattered when some family members are whisked away while others are murdered before his eyes.
Vahan loses his home...
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
| Author | Franz Werfel |
| ISBN | 0786711388 |
This stirring, poignant novel, based on real historical events that made of actual people true heroes, unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have...
There Was and There Was Not: A Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond
| Author | Meline Toumani |
| ISBN | 0805097627 |
A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a "love thine enemy" experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use-and abuse-our personal histories
Meline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian community in New Jersey where Turkish restaurants were shunned and products...
| Author | Fethiye Çetin |
| ISBN | 1844671690 |
When Fethiye Cetin was growing up in the small Turkish town of Maden, she knew her grandmother as a happy and universally respected Muslim housewife. It would be decades before her grandmother told her the truth: that she was by birth a Christian and an Armenian, that her name was not Seher but Heranush,...
Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
| Author | Eric Bogosian |
| ISBN | 0316292087 |
A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper...
The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
| Author | Jean Hatzfeld |
| ISBN | 0374271038 |
A powerful report on the aftereffects of the genocide in Rwanda--and on the near impossibility of reconciliation between survivors and killers
In two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and...
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
| Author | Vasily Grossman |
| ISBN | 1590176189 |
An NYRB Classics Original
Few writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different...
The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
| Author | Philip Marsden |
| ISBN | 0006376673 |
After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded a civilization and underwent a diaspora that brought many of the great ideas...
To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America
| Author | Tara Bahrampour |
| ISBN | 0520223543 |
A compelling and intimate exploration of the complexity of a bicultural immigrant experience, To See and See Again traces three generations of an Iranian (and Iranian-American) family undergoing a century of change--from the author's grandfather, a feudal lord with two wives; to her father, a freespirited...
The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
| Author | Thierry Cruvellier |
| ISBN | 0062329545 |
Renowned journalist Thierry Cruvellier takes us into the dark heart of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge with The Master of Confessions, a suspenseful account of a Chief Interrogator's trial for war crimes.
On April 17, 1975, the communist Khmer Rouge, led by its secretive prime minister Pol Pot, took...
| Author | Michael J. Arlen |
| ISBN | 0374530122 |
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...
| Author | Nancy Kricorian |
| ISBN | 0380732114 |
I have read several narratives of this horrifying period in Armenian history, but I have found that it is underrepresented in most accounts of genocide and war. Most of my reading on these topics has been focused on WW II and that Holocaust. I have noted that the generations which followed both abominations...
The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living
| Author | Courtney Angela Brkic |
| ISBN | 0374207747 |
When she was twenty-three years old, Courtney Angela Brkic joined a UN-contracted forensic team in eastern Bosnia. Unlike many aid workers, Brkic was drawn there by her family history, and although fluent in the language, she was advised to avoid letting local workers discover her ethnicity. Brkic...
| Author | Carol Edgarian |
| ISBN | 0679426019 |
Excellent story: historically informative, although it's told from a modern day perspective; well-developed characters; excellent pace!
Had I not read this book, the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915 would have been just another phrase passing by my eyes in various things I read....
| Author | André Aciman |
| ISBN | 0312420056 |
André Aciman is voor mij echt een ontdekking: "Valse papieren" is het vierde boek dat ik dit jaar van hem las, en ik vermaakte mij weer opperbest. Het boek zit weer vol nostalgie, verlangen en weemoed, net als zijn prachtromans "Call me by your name" en "Enigma variations", en net als zijn essaybundel...
Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions That Forged Modern Greece and Turkey
| Author | Bruce Clark |
| ISBN | 0674023684 |
In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. The Lausanne treaty resulted in the deportation of Orthodox Christians from Turkey to Greece and of Muslims from Greece to Turkey. The transfer was hailed...
