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PEOPLE MAGAZINE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY SPOTLIGHT UPCOMING NOVEL ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

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13.07.2012 13:13

>From People Magazine to Entertainment Weekly, New York Times
Bestselling author Chris Bohjalian’s upcoming novel on the Armenian
Genocide, The Sandcastle Girls, has made a splash in the literary
and arts world even before hitting the shelves on July 17th, reported
the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

The upcoming July 23rd issue of People Magazine has spotlighted The
Sandcastle Girls in its “Great Reads – New in Fiction” section and
described it as “an affecting tale set at the time of a lesser-known
Holocaust, 1915’s Armenian genocide.”

Entertainment Weekly (EW) included the novel on their summer
must-read list. “The Storytelling structure is precariously ornate
in this ardent historical romance The Sandcastle Girls, grounded in
a real-life tragedy known by too few, the Armenian genocide of 1915,”
noted EW’s Lisa Schwarzbaum.

Vermont’s Independent Voice, Seven Days, hailed the novel and labeled
it as an innovative way to raise awareness for unrecognized human
rights violations. “Genocide narratives from the point of view of
the descendants will always resemble the reactions of visitors to
a monument – sober, elegiac and respectful,” noted Seven Days. The
review further reiterated the novel’s role in humanizing the events
of 1915. “At the opening of the novel, Laura reflects that Americans
could benefit from a book called The Armenian Genocide for Dummies.

Indeed, many of us could – but a fiction like Bohjalian’s, with its
power to reach legions of readers, may be far more valuable.”

The Sandcastle Girls brings the reader on a very different kind of
journey. The spellbinding tale travels between Aleppo, Syria in 1915
and Bronxville, New York in 2012 – a sweeping historical love story
steeped in the author’s Armenian heritage, making it his most personal
novel to date.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress