Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan

Skylark Farm by Antonia Arslan

This novel of survival against all odds chronicles one family's struggle during the Armenian genocide in Turkey in 1915. 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, forty years later, he is planning a long-awaited reunion with his relatives at their family home, Skylark Farm. But while joyful preparations for Yerwant's arrival are being made in the town of his birth, Italy is closing its borders as it enters the Great War... Two years later, as war continues across Europe, and attacks on Turkey's Armenian community become increasingly murderous, Yerwant's family begins a brutal odyssey of hunger and humiliation. 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.

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 *

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	9781843546740
ISBN 10	1843546744
Title	Skylark Farm
Author	Antonia Arslan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Atlantic Books
Year published	2008-07-01
Number of pages	288
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