Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream

by Garin K. Hovannisian

Book Overview

Combining the historical urgency of The Burning Tigris, the cultural sweep of Middlesex, and the psychological complexity of Bending Toward the Sun, Garin K. Hovannisian's Family of Shadows is a searing history of Armenia, realized through the lives of three generations of a single family. In Family of Shadows, Hovannisian traces the arc of his family's changing relationship to its motherland, from his great-grandfather's flight to America after...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006179208X
• ISBN13: 9780061792083
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"