My Armenian Friend

by Andreï Makine

Book Overview

A heart-wrenching novel that is at once an indelible portrait of friendship, a coming-of-age tale, and a dive into the memory of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire.

Siberia, early seventies. The narrator, a thirteen-year-old orphan, saves Vardan, a young Armenian boy, from discrimination and being attacked by fellow Soviet students in their schoolyard. A friendship is born.

When Vardan brings him home, the narrator...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1950994465
• ISBN13: 9781950994465
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.4"