Product Description
by Gonzalo Hernandez Guarch (Author)
These pages explain the reasons for the Armenian genocide of 1915. Although Turkey denies it, in 2000, the French Parliament recognized it, and in 2016 made its denial a fined crime. Emmanuel Macron declared April 24 as Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day in France. Also recognized by U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, Pope Francis called it "the first genocide of the 20th century." There is a small Christian country located in the South Caucasus, wedged between huge Muslim nations (Turkey, Iran and Azerbaijan), whose people have suffered like few others the most tragic and unfortunate vicissitudes of modern history. Much has been said about the Jewish Holocaust perpetrated during World War II, but little is known about the ruthless extermination of the Armenians by the Turks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which served as an example for Hitler. This is a moving historical novel that, through the vicissitudes of the Nazarian-Nakhoudian family, intertwines the lives of the Armenian victims with the Turkish perpetrators. But, above all, it is a denunciation of how a state becomes genocidal of its own citizens simply because they are different.
Author Biography
G.H. Guarch (Barcelona, 1945) cuenta con una brillante trayectoria literaria como avalan sus títulos: Los espejismos, Historia de tres mujeres, El jardín de arena, El árbol armenio y Las puertas del paraíso (Premio Blasco Ibáñez 97), Una historia familiar y Tierra de dioses. Con la editorial Almuzara ha publicado: Shalom Sefarad, En el hombre de Dios, El testamento Armenio, El Talmud de Viena, La hija del Kremlin, El Informe Kerry, El indiano, La montaña blanca, La sombra de Sun Yat-sen y Corresponsal en Rusia. Recibió la Medalla de Oro al Mérito Cultural de la República Armenia 2002, el Diploma de Honor de la Academia Armenia de Ciencias, es miembro honorario de la Unión de Escritores Armenios, recibió el Premio Garbis Papazian 2007 (AGBU) y la Medalla Movses Khorenatsi 2013. Le ha sido otorgado el nombramiento de Doctor Honoris Causa por la YSU (Yerevan State University) y el Claustro de Profesores de la Universidad Estatal de Erevan le concedió la Medalla de Oro de la Universidad por su comprometida literatura sobre la historia de la disolución del Imperio otomano y el Genocidio armenio.
