Three Apples Fell from Heaven

"Micheline Aharonian Marcom introduces us to the stories of Anaguil, an Armenian girl taken in by Turkish neighbors after the death of her parents, who now views the remains of her world through a Muslim veil; Sargis, a poet hidden away in his mother's attic, dressed in women's clothing and steadily going mad; Lucine, a servant and lover of the American consul, reviled by villagers for the illusory privilege she enjoys; Maritsa, a rage-filled Muslim wife who becomes a whore while her husband is at the front; and Dickran, an infant left behind under a tree on the long exodus from an Armenian village, who reaches with tiny hands to touch the stars and dies with his name unrecorded. Through these lives, we witness the vanishing of a people."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved