The Sandcastle Girls -

Chris Bohjalian

Simon & Schuster UK

2013

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-10: 1471110729

One woman's journey into her family's past reveals a shocking story that has never been told.

1915, Aleppo, Syria.When Elizabeth Endicott steps off the boat from Boston, armed only with a crash course in nursing, nothing could have prepared her for the atrocities she is about to face. For Aleppo is the arrival point for the hundreds of thousands of Armenians who have been forced to march out of Turkey and through the desert to die.

There Elizabeth gets to know Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter in the Genocide. When Armen travels to Egypt to join the British army, he begins to write to Elizabeth, and slowly realizes that, unless he can find his way back to her, he risks becoming lost forever.

Present day, New York.Laura Petrosian has never really given her Armenian heritage much thought until an old friend calls, claiming to have seen a photo of Laura's grandmother advertising a museum exhibition. As Laura embarks on a journey back through her family's history she'll find a tale of love, loss - and the hidden story of a nation in mourning.

Resenhas (16)

5 (Perfeito)

Estarrecedor

"Como um milhão e meio de pessoas morrem sem que ninguém veja?"
"Eu estava chorando pela morte de um milhão e meio de pessoas, e uma civilização no leste da Turquia que fora reduzida a uma montanha de ossos sobre as areias de Del-er-Zor."
A história do genocídio armênio sempre despertou meu interesse. Li outros dois livros sobre o assunto - Alma Armênia e Fé no Inferno (decepcinante) -, nenhum se compara a este.