Skylark Farm (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400095674)

A beautiful, wrenching debut chronicling the life of a family struggling for survival during the Armenian genocide in Turkey, in 1915.

After forty years in Venice, Yerwant is planning a long-awaited reunion with his family at their homestead in the Anatolian hills of Turkey. But as joyful preparations begin, Italy enters the Great War and closes its borders. At the same time, in Turkey, the Young Turks, determined to rid their nation of minorities, force his family on a brutal march of hunger and humiliation. We follow Yerwant's relatives as they strain to stay alive and as four children set out on a daring course to reach Yerwant--and safety--in Italy.

A novel as lyrical and poignant as a fable.

Author: Antonia Arslan
ISBN-10: 1400095670
ISBN-13: 9781400095674
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2008
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.26w x 0.64d