Forgotten Fire

Based on a true story, this tale tells of the struggles a young Armenian man living in Turkey had to go through during the Armenian Holocaust in the early 1900s.

Adam Bagdasarian was inspired to write Forgotten Fire after hearing a recording his great-uncle made about his experiences during the Armenian genocide of 1915. Adam Bagdasarian's short story, "The Survivor," based on the same experiences, won Yankee magazine's Fiction Award. Rosellen Brown praised it, saying, "'The Survivor' is in the oldest tradition of story-telling, bearing into the present not only the details but the feel of the details of the past. The orphaned Armenian boy, living in terror and silence and stifled pride among his enemies, seems to exemplify all exiles everywhere for whom 'the unknown went on forever.' This is a brief glimpse into the history of brutality and of lonely courage." Forgotten Fire is Mr. Badgasarian's first novel. He lives in New York City.