Samantha Schnee and European Literary Network: „Memorable characters, the sheer beauty of the writing”
This ambitious and majestic collage of a book reminds one by turns of Primo Levi and Roberto Bolaño, in terms of both the horror it portrays and the sheer beauty of the writing.
It also finds ways to amuse readers with the contradictions of the twentieth century. Employing some of the tropes of oral literature, this novel is replete with memorable characters who represent the history...
European Literary Network and Ted Hodkginson: A haunting history filled with sorrow, resilience and beauty.
An astonishing and evocative encounter with the Armenian people and the terrible acts of genocide they have suffered.
The Book of Whispers attunes us to the sounds of the Armenian people, from the harrowing and largely hidden story of their marginalisation and oppression, to the cadences and rhythms of their everyday language and rituals. In a majestic translation by Alastair Ian B...
European Literary Network and Rosie Goldsmith: A harrowing and beautiful novel
A poignant and lyrical novel about an Armenian family, the 1915 massacres, and – through the story of its Romanian-Armenian author – the stories of the survivors and descendants.
It seems wrong to describe such a harrowing novel as beautiful – but it is. This is the fictional masterpiece about the Armenian genocide, narrated in heart-breaking, poignant and lyrical style by the prominent Romanian-Armenian a...
European Literature Network and Gabriel Gbadamosi:The Book of Whispers is a silent reading of the collective and individual memories of Armenians.
The Book of Whispers is a self-consciously intellectual take on how to capture a people who have disappeared, who have been placed ‘outside the mirror’ and yet persist through echoes of their stories, presences and ghostly life.
Born into a milieu of Armenians in Romania, the writer grows up to recognise the imprint in those around him of an...
Norway - Dagbladet: The Book of Whispers is now considered to be the spearhead of the Armenians' struggle to gain recognition for the suffering they have been exposed to.
REFUGEES: Armenian refugees after the Turkish genocide that hit the population in 1914. This tragic event is the background of the novel "The Book of Wings". Photo: Wikimedia commons / No known restictions
The novel as Turkey's rulers hate and fear
Romanian poet with masterpiece on the Armenian genocide.
May 13, 2017 at...
„The first part of the Book of Whispers is delightful”.
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BOOK OF SWEETS
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„. Description of memories, youth, and above all every now and then appearing simple sentences that you want to sign up.
Childhood with no compartments that you can search for is meaningless. Only what is hidden is really worth seeing.
Despite the fact that the city in central Poland from the late seventies of the last century diffe...
