Andreï Makine
Author
Language
English
Description
A heart-wrenching novel that is at once an indelible portrait of friendship, a coming-of-age tale, and a savage dive into the persecution of Armenians in the Soviet Union.
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.
When Vardan brings him home, the narrator enters a world of Armenian...