Skylark Farm

Skylark Farm

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

Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Main
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 Jul 2008

ISBN 10: 1843546744
ISBN 13: 9781843546740
Book Overview: Rejacketed and relaunched in a highly commercial 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.

Media Reviews
Sombre and richly steeped in symbolism, Arslan's is a book to savour. -- Catherine Taylor * Guardian *
Epic in sweep and heartbreaking in tone. -- Jeremy Seal * Daily Telegraph *
This soul-shaking novel feels like a masterpiece. * Booklist (Starred Review) *
An Armenian Schindler's List. * Kirkus *
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.