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A Summer Without Dawn
by Agop Hacikyan, Jean-Yves Soucy
Product Group: Book
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (2000-05-20)
ISBN: 077103752X
EAN: 9780771037528
Dewy Decimal #: 843.914
Hardcover: 552 pages
Release Date: 2000-05-20
SKU: 08040001
Condition: Very Good Very Good
Comments: Hardback in very good condition with no markings. Dust jacket very good condition with minor shelf wear and vertical crease in DJ in spine. Slight speckling of top and front edges. Tight binding and clear crisp text. Very nice book.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
A Summer Without Dawn is an epic family saga that unfolds against the true story of the Armenians deported from the Ottoman Empire and massacred during the First World War.
In the summer of 1915, days after the government orders the deportation of the Armenians, the charismatic Armenian journalist Vartan Balian is separated from his family and imprisoned by politicians hoping to silence him. After a daring escape, he becomes a fugitive and embarks on an odyssey across the vast empire. Not only is he running for his life; he is also searching for his wife, Maro, and their young son, Tomas. Forced into one of the deportee convoys headed for the Syrian desert, their numbers thinning every day, Maro and Tomas are saved from certain death when the Ottoman governor overseeing their deportation shelters them in the cloistered splendour of his palace, where Maro is reluctantly drawn into his harem’s web of betrayals and alliances. In the four years that will pass before they are reunited, the Balians will each confront the calamities of war and the secrets of their own heart.
With settings ranging from the exotic opulence of a Turkish harem and the cosmopolitan streets of Constantinople, to the blistering desolation of the Syrian desert, this sweeping novel immerses the reader in a time, a place, and a political moment that have rarely, if ever, been portrayed in the pages of a novel. A Summer Without Dawn is a rich tapestry of lives, a compelling human drama about a family swept up in one of history’s darkest moments, and a moving portrait of a people’s unbreakable will to survive.
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Customer Reviews
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Summer Without a Dawn
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-06-13
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
A novel that tells the story of an Armenian Family during the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The story is very well written and immediately captivates its audience. Once you get into it, you won't be able to put it down. It becomes part of you. Once you finish reading it, it will stay with you forever.
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THE DEFINITIVE HISTORICAL NOVEL . . .
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-01-08
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The Definitive Historical Novel
A Summer Without Dawn is the best and definitive historical novel ever written on the Armenian Genocide during the First World War. Its spirited, vibrant writing, frequent twists and happenings, abundance of events and unusual love stories, ``secrets of the heart`` keep the reader`s interest at the boiling point till the last page. A fabulous read for lovers of good literature and history--one is educated while being entertained. It is bound to become a great classic in its genre. . .
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A Great Historical Novel
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-12-30
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
A Summer Without Dawn is a credit to the historical genre. The authors have created a great beautiful story, providing the reader with long hours of intermingled pleasure and anxiety. This work is quite without parallel in its richness of detail, despite the fact that its action unfolds during the First World War. The storytelling genius of the authors and the romantic plot that is developed with such superb skill forbids the reader to put the novel down until the last page.
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A sweeping epic
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-12-24
This new and sweeping epic about the Armenian Genocide of the First World War will surely start a trend. The authors have managed to fashion something of compelling beauty and importance
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The best historical novel on Armenian Genocide
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-12-03
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This saga of 20th century`s first ethnic slaughter is written by the heart and guts. It by far supersedes Werfel`s Forty Days of Musa Dagh which has been elevated almost to a reputed scripture about the Armenian`s unyielding spirit. An epic diligently faithful to history. This extraordinary novel gets under the reader`s skin and seizes your imagination until you finish reading the last word. Extraordinarily cinematic, brimmingly eventful, exotique, replete with suspense and fabulous descriptions with a flowing literary narrative. No wonder the novel became an instant best-seller when it first appeared. It is bound to become a classic of its genre and hopefully a great movie soon.
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