Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir - Softcover

Balakian, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767902548 ISBN 13: 9780767902540

Verlag: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del, 1998

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Book by Balakian Peter

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The first-born son of his generation, Peter Balakian grew up in a close, extended family, sheltered by 1950s and '60s New Jersey suburbia and immersed in an all-American boyhood defined by rock 'n' roll, adolescent pranks, and a passion for the New York Yankees that he shared with his beloved grandmother. But beneath this sunny world lay the dark specter of the trauma his family and ancestors had experienced--the Turkish government's extermination of more than a million Armenians in 1915, including many of Balakian's relatives, in the century's first genocide.

In elegant, moving prose, Black Dog of Fate charts Balakian's growth and personal awakening to the facts of his family's history and the horrifying aftermath of the Turkish government's continued campaign to cover up one of the worst crimes ever committed against humanity. In unearthing the secrets of a family's past and how they affect its present, Black Dog of Fate gives fresh meaning to the story of what it means to be an American.

Biografía del autor

Peter Balakian is professor of English at Colgate University and the author of four books of poems, most recently Dyer's Thistle. He lives in Hamilton, New York.

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• Verlag: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0767902548
• ISBN 13: 9780767902540
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 3