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Burning Orchards (Paperback)
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Gurgen Marhari's controversial novel, Burning Orchards, is set in
the Ottoman city of Van, Eastern Anatolia, during the period
leading up to the Armenian rebellion of 1915 and relates the epic
story of the events which culminated in the catastrophe of the
following years, wonderfully told by one of the great writers
emerging from Soviet Armenia. Written with an abiding humanity,
Mahari's characters are portrayed as complex and flawed - neither
hero nor villain but keenly observed and evoked with a tender
humour. Burning Orchards offers a version of events leading up to
the siege of Van different from the received, politically charged
accounts, even daring to reflect something of the loyalty many
Ottoman Armenians had felt towards the former Empire. First
published in Armenian in 1966 after Mahari's long exile in
Siberian, Burning Orchards (Ayrvogh Aygestanner), was banned and
publicly burned in the streets of Yerevan, even though the
authorities in Moscow had eventually agreed to its publication.
Much against the wishes of his wife he tried to rewrite the novel,
removing passages criticising some Armenian political parties and
leaders, but dying before it could be finalised. The translation
offered here is of the banned 1966 publication. A brilliant work,
epic in scope and masterful in its depiction of the cruel
displacement of an ancient people from their historic homeland,
Burning Orchards is a re-discovered classic.
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