Skylark Farm: A Novel

Skylark Farm: A Novel

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 286
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 Jan 2008

ISBN 10: 1843546736
ISBN 13: 9781843546733

Media Reviews
'In Arslan's hands, the gruesome details of this tragedy are palliated by an old-fashioned story of redemption... Skylark Farm is an affecting book, and sensitively translated by Geoffrey Brook.' New York Times Books Review 'An Armenian Schindler's List.' Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) 'This soul-shaking novel feels like a masterpiece.' Booklist (Starred Review)
Author Bio
Antonia Arslan, who lives in Padua, has a degree in archaeology and was Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Padua. Skylark Farm is her first novel.