My grandmother - a memoir
The author's acute sensibility and ear for detail set this account apart. Her own conflicting feelings - towards her country, her ancestors - as she discovers the truth, provide another layer of emotional complexity. Çetin is not alone. An estimated two million Turks have a grandparent of Armen...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | New Internationalist 2008 (412), p.31 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The author's acute sensibility and ear for detail set this account apart. Her own conflicting feelings - towards her country, her ancestors - as she discovers the truth, provide another layer of emotional complexity. Çetin is not alone. An estimated two million Turks have a grandparent of Armenian extraction. Since 'coming out' about her grandmother's true identity - at the old woman's funeral-the author has been contacted by many others with similar stories. |
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| ISSN: | 0305-9529 |