USA - Virginia Parobek (Lancaster, Ohio - photo) and World Literature Today: „The Book of Whispers”, a hypnotic voice
Far too little is written about or by the Armenian peoples. Granted, the Republic of Armenia is a small country (population: 3 million), sitting adjacent to Turkey, whose Ottoman Empire started the infamous Armenian genocides in 1915. The genocide involved the Ottomans’ systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1919 (this history not yet a reconcil...
Italia - Giuditalegge.com e Nello Zaino di Antonello: El libro dei sussurri, uno dei capolavori della letteratura romena post-comunista
A proposito di margini e confini, popoli erranti e sradicati bisogna tener presente un testo pubblicato dalla casa editrice Keller nella collana Passi e dal titolo “Il libro dei sussurri” di Varujan Vosganian.
Pubblicato nel 2009, “Il libro dei sussurri” ha ottenuto sin da subito uno straordinario successo di critica, tanto da essere considerato il...
This is an unputdownable, haunting read that left me with the same shattering feeling I had after visiting Auschwitz or the former Romanian communist prison in Sighet. Originally published in Bucharest in 2009 by Polirom, the book has been translated into over twenty languages and it is a chronicle of the tragic destiny of Armenians, inspired by the stories of Varujan Vosganian’s grandparents, refugees who escaped the Armenian genocide to Romania.
Dozens of stories of tradesmen, princes, sc...
The Book of Whispers and his autor were presented in the most important central newspapers and TV broadcast in Croatia. The launch of The Book of Whispers took place on 7th of December 2017.
U ljubavi i vjeri se šapuće, samo se u mržnji viče
I kada se ispovijedaš svećeniku, šapćeš. Šapat je gesta iskrenosti. I u ljubavnoj igri se šapće, samo mržnja viče – rekao je Vosganjan,
Suživot konzervativnih i liberalnih mostovaca tek dolazi na pra...
Thoughts While Reading: The Book of Whispers
The language of this book is simply stunning. It is poetry. It is music that flows over your soul through your eyes. This brings to mind one of the most important lessons I ever learned in my life: the way you say something can have tremendous power, either positive or negative. So much of the time we diminish our words to practically nothing - slang, emojis, text shorthand. There is no power in the things we say this way. That is...
Jan Willem Bos, the Dutch translator of The Book of Whispers, interview about the novel
https://klara.be/naar-roemenie-met-varujan-vosganian
