Skylark Farm (Vintage)

by Geoffrey Brock (Translator), Antonia Arslan (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $19.01

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  Paperback
  2008

  $3.25

  Rejacketed and relaunched in a highly commerical paperback package for the millions who loved The Kite Runner and The Bookseller of Kabul , Skylark Farm is a novel of family survival and an epic journey to safety.At the age of thirteen, Yerwant left his home in the Anatolian hills of Turkey to study at an Armenian boarding school in Venice. Now, in May 1915, after forty years, he is planning a long-awaited reunion with his family at their homestead, Skylark Farm. But while joyful preparations for Yerwant's arrival are being made in the town of his birth, Italy enters the Great War and closes its borders. At the same time, in Turkey, Yerwant's family begins a brutal odyssey of hunger and humiliation at the hands of the Young Turks who are determined to rid their nation of minorities.Fighting brutality with love, courage and hope, four of the family's children set out on a dangerous and daring course of their own: to reach Yerwant, and safety, in Italy.