Overview
A strange inheritance reveals troubling secrets for a Turkish family in this ?remarkable debut novel? of love, grief, and the Armenian genocide (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).
Orhan T?rkoglu?s grandfather Kemal not only lived through the Armenian Genocide of World War I, but went on to build a dynasty out of his?kilim?rug business. Now, when Kemal is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan must return to the small Turkish village of his youth to pay his respects and claim his inheritance. While Kemal?s will leaves the business to Orhan, the family estate has been left to a strange woman no one in the family has ever heard of before. Thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, elderly Seda Melkonian lives in a retirement home for Armenian Americans.
Intent on righting this injustice, Orhan travels to California. But his journey unearths a story that, if told, has the power to undo the legacy upon which Orhan?s family is built?a story that could unravel his own future.
?Stunning . . . At turns both subtle and transcendent.? ?Los Angeles Review of Books
?Rich, tragic, compelling, and realized with deep care and insight.? ?Elle
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781616204914 |
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| Publisher: | Workman Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 04/07/2015 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | NOOK Book |
| Pages: | 370 |
| Sales rank: | 27,608 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
PART I,
CHAPTER 1 An Axe in the Forest,
CHAPTER 2 Pilgrimage to Ararat,
CHAPTER 3 Home,
CHAPTER 4 White Days,
CHAPTER 5 The Staff of Moses,
PART II,
CHAPTER 6 Normal,
CHAPTER 7 Red River,
CHAPTER 8 The Crier,
CHAPTER 9 Under the Mulberry Tree,
CHAPTER 10 Bedros and the Dress,
CHAPTER 11 Infidels,
CHAPTER 12 Kismet,
CHAPTER 13 The Whips of Satan,
PART III,
CHAPTER 14 Selling Minds,
CHAPTER 15 Ani,
CHAPTER 16 Memory’s Garden,
CHAPTER 17 The Fountain,
PART IV,
CHAPTER 18 The Pretty Ones,
CHAPTER 19 The Road to Kangal,
CHAPTER 20 Empty Prayers,
CHAPTER 21 God’s Will, Insallah,
CHAPTER 22 Eagle Eye,
CHAPTER 23 Ctesiphon,
CHAPTER 24 Place of Sin,
CHAPTER 25 Rebirth,
CHAPTER 26 Altar of Contrition,
CHAPTER 27 Spilled Porridge,
CHAPTER 28 Ghosts,
CHAPTER 29 Resurrection,
CHAPTER 30 The Handmaid,
CHAPTER 31 Finding Faith,
PART V,
CHAPTER 32 Exile,
CHAPTER 33 Decrepit Seed,
CHAPTER 34 The Photographer,
CHAPTER 35 Semantics,
CHAPTER 36 Witness,
CHAPTER 37 Fatma Forgiven,
CHAPTER 38 Transformation,
Acknowledgments,
Reader’s Guide,
About the Author,
About Algonquin
