Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan

Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan

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.

'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)

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.

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ISBN 13	9781843546733
ISBN 10	1843546736
Title	Skylark Farm
Author	Antonia Arslan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Atlantic Books
Year published	2008-01-01
Number of pages	288
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