Vartanoosh: My Grandmother's Story

by Georgianne Ensign Kent

Book Overview

In the late 1890s, Vartanoosh Tarzian escapes with her parents from Turkish massacres in their province of Erzeroum, Armenia, to Beirut, the little girl and her brother riding in saddlebags on a camel. Left in Syria in the care of a bachelor uncle while her mother emigrates to America and her father travels to England for medical treatment, she finally rejoins her mother in New York City in 1903. Vartanoosh is placed in The Sheltering Arms, an Episcopal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595418015
• ISBN13: 9780595418015
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"