From Van to Toronto: A Life in Two Worlds: Oksen Teghtsoonian (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780595656769)

This memoir describes a long and unusual life that started in eastern Turkey in 1896 in a house with an earthen floor, and ended in middle-class comfort in suburban Toronto nearly a century later. The author was an eyewitness to the first genocide of the 20th century, a horror in which most of his family was lost. He lived through the first World War and the Bolshevik Revolution that led to the creation of the Soviet Union. He fled from Soviet Armenia, first to Moscow and then to London. From there he went with wife and baby daughter to Toronto, where he faced the task of earning a living during the Great Depression. Caught up in this swirl of historical forces he describes in fascinating detail his remarkable story of survival. And, perhaps not the least remarkable fact of this life, he was over 80 years of age when he began writing his life story. There is much here to stimulate and educate, not only those who wish to know more about the Armenian Diaspora, but everyone with an interest in the human condition as it was experienced in other places and in another time.

Author: Oksen Teghtsoonian
ISBN-10: 0595656765
ISBN-13: 9780595656769
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2003
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.64w x 0.94d