{"product_id":"my-armenian-friend-hardcover","title":"My Armenian Friend - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndreï Makine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Strachan\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA heart-wrenching novel that is at once an indelible portrait of friendship, a coming-of-age tale, and a dive into the\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ememory of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Siberia, early seventies. The narrator, a thirteen-year-old orphan, saves Vardan, a young Armenian boy, from discrimination and being attacked by fellow Soviet students in their schoolyard. A friendship is born. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Vardan brings him home, the narrator enters a world of Armenian families living in the periphery of a prison where their husbands, sons, and fathers are detained. It is there, in the warmth of their home, that the narrator meets courage, love, and dignity--all of which will mark him for the rest of his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At first, only Vardan's mysterious attacks of fever and pain, diagnosed simply as the \"Armenian disease,\" can separate the friends. But then an act of child's play is suspected by the regime as aiding in an escape attempt from one of the nearby camps. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Armenian Friend\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully conjures a double nostalgia: that of an isolated Armenian community for their native country, and that of a boy for his childhood friend.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndreï Makine \u003c\/b\u003eis an internationally bestselling author. He is the winner of the Goncourt Prize and the Médicis Prize, the two highest literary awards in France, for his novel \u003ci\u003eDreams of My Russian Summers, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was also a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book and a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year. Makine was born in Siberia in 1957 and raised in the Soviet Union. Granted asylum in France in 1987, Makine was personally given French citizenship by President Jacques Chirac. He now lives in Paris, France. Arcade Publishing has published eleven of Makine's acclaimed novels in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460643504306,"sku":"9781950994465","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/fe0a26a19ae762f311f6b385b459bdec.webp?v=1778927517","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/my-armenian-friend-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}