Asian Trips - My Grandmother: A Memoir
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.620154092
EAN: 9781844671694
ISBN: 1844671690
Label: Verso
Manufacturer: Verso
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 2008-04-07
Publisher: Verso
Studio: Verso
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An urgent, passionate memoir of the author's discovery of her Muslim grandmother's true Armenian Christian identity.
When Fethiye Çetin was growing up in the small Turkish town of Maden, she knew her grandmother as a happy and universally respected Muslim housewife. It would be decades before her grandmother told her the truth: that she was by birth a Christian and an Armenian, that her name was not Seher but Heranush, that most of the men in her village had been slaughtered in 1915, that she, along with most of the women and children, had been sent on a death march. She had been saved (and torn from her mother's arms) by the Turkish gendarme captain who went on to adopt her. But she knew she still had family in America. Could Fethiye help her find her lost relations before she died? There are an estimated two million Turks whose grandparents could tell them similar stories. But in a country that maintains the Armenian genocide never happened, such talk can be dangerous. In her heartwrenching memoir, Fethiye Çetin breaks the silence.
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Summary: touching personal account fills important gap
Comment: Fethiye Chetin's moving account of her grandmother is a must read. It fills an important gap in the narrative of the Armenian Genocide, the story of Armenian children forcibly taken from their families during the genocide. It is a story of continued discrimination not only for the children, but also their own children later. Throughout the text, one also senses the psychological control over Armenians that continued well after the genocide.
For me personally, Fethiye's account was particularly moving as my own grandmother spent 6 years as a captive to a Turkish family that had abducted her, also in the region of Palu. If not for my grandmother's rescue by her sole surviving family member, this story and life could have been mine.
It is my hope that Fethiye's courage in writing this book will lead to many more about the thousands of "lost and forgotten" Armenians. As we see, the effects of genocide last well beyond the initial heinous crimes.
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Summary: Amazing story...
Comment: One of the best books I've read. It's a sad, touching story of one woman's life and journey...I've cried and I've smiled while reading this wonderful book. I am Armenian myself and this story touched me in many-many ways...
Thank you!
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