Passage to Ararat
Passage to Ararat won the National Book Award in 1976. In Passage to Ararat, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to forget: Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian, a descendant of a proud people whom conquerors had for centuries tried to exterminate. But perhaps most affectingly, Arlen tells a story as large as a whole people yet as personal as the uneasy bond between a father and a son, offering a masterful account of the affirmation and pain of kinship.
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- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN-13
- 9781466874008
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Armenian identity and heritageFather-son relationshipArmenian genocide history
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1976)
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