Black Dog of Fate

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Memoír í The first-born son of his generation, Peter Balakian grew up in a close, extended family, sheltered by 1950s and '60s New Jersey suburbia and immersed in an allAmerican boyhood defined by rock 'n' roll, adolescent pranks, and a passión for the New York Yankees that he shared with his beloved grandmother. But beneath this sunny world lay the dark specter of the trauma his family and ancestors had experienced-the Turkish government's extermination of more than a millión Armenians in 1915, including many of Balakian's relatives, in the century's first genocide. In elegant, moving prose, Black Dog ofFate charts Balakian's growth and personal awakening to the facts of his family's history and the horrifying aftermath of the Turkish government's continued campaign to cover up one of the worst crimes ever committed against humanity. In unearthing the secrets of a family's past and how they affect its present, Black Dog ofFate gives fresh meaning to the story of what it means to be... Tovább

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Memoír í The first-born son of his generation, Peter Balakian grew up in a close, extended family, sheltered by 1950s and '60s New Jersey suburbia and immersed in an allAmerican boyhood defined by rock 'n' roll, adolescent pranks, and a passión for the New York Yankees that he shared with his beloved grandmother. But beneath this sunny world lay the dark specter of the trauma his family and ancestors had experienced-the Turkish government's extermination of more than a millión Armenians in 1915, including many of Balakian's relatives, in the century's first genocide. In elegant, moving prose, Black Dog ofFate charts Balakian's growth and personal awakening to the facts of his family's history and the horrifying aftermath of the Turkish government's continued campaign to cover up one of the worst crimes ever committed against humanity. In unearthing the secrets of a family's past and how they affect its present, Black Dog ofFate gives fresh meaning to the story of what it means to be an American. • One of the Los Angeles Times "Best Books of 1997" "All the best memoirs belong to the literature of quest. They are tales of discovery, stories of finding one's way back as well as forward. Peter Balakian's Black Dog ofFate is such a book." -Houston Chronicle "Written with great sensitivity, Black Dog ofFate is at once a family memoir, a history of the extermination of the Armenians in Turkey, and the story of a young man's passage into adulthood." -New York Times Book fíeview Vissza