| Zabelle Contributor(s): Kricorian, Nancy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802143806 ISBN-13: 9780802143808 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: An exuberant and magical tale of an Armenian woman that encompasses her vivid life experiences through comic interactions and battles that she wages in her new country--with a domineering mother in-law, a tradition-bound husband, Americanized children, and the man she secretly loves. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.52 lbs) 258 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Cultural Region - Turkey - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Zabelle begins in a suburb of Boston with the quiet death of Zabelle Chahasbanian, an elderly widow and grandmother whose history remains vastly unknown to her family. But as the story shifts back in time to Zabelle's childhood in the waning days of Ottoman Turkey, where she survives the 1915 Armenian genocide and near starvation in the Syrian desert, an unforgettable character begins to emerge. Zabelle's journey encompasses years in an Istanbul orphanage, a fortuitous adoption by a rich Armenian family, and an arranged marriage to an Armenian grocer who brings her to America where the often comic interactions and battles she wages are forever colored by shadows from the long-lost world of her past. |