The atrocities of the genocide and the First World War continue, and Bohjalian spares no detail in his gritty descriptions. Though Armen departs for Egypt to fight with the British Army in WWI, their relationship blossoms into an epistolary romance. A fresh-faced nurse just out of college, Elizabeth has learned only rudimentary Armenian, but soon befriends Armen Petrosian, an engineer who lost his wife and daughter during the chaos of the deportations and mass murders. In 1915, Bostonian Elizabeth Endicott arrives at a compound in Aleppo, Syria, to provide humanitarian aid to Armenian refugees. Bohjalian’s powerful newest (after The Night Strangers) depicts the Armenian genocide and one contemporary novelist’s quest to uncover her heritage.
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