Three Apples Fell From Heaven

Marcom, Micheline Aharonian

ISBN 10: 1573229156 / ISBN 13: 9781573229159

Published by Riverhead Books, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Three Apples Fell From Heaven
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573229156
• ISBN 13: 9781573229159
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

An elegant memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocide—from the award-winning author of The Brick House.

A New York Times Notable Book that imagines the lives of several sufferers of the twentieth century’s first genocide. Anaguil, an Armenian girl taken in by Turkish neighbors after the death of her parents who now views the remains of her world through a Muslim veil; Sargis, a poet hidden away in his mother’s attic, dressed in women’s clothing, and steadily going mad; Lucine, a servant and lover of the American consul; Maritsa, a rage-filled Muslim wife who becomes a whore; and Dickran, an infant left behind under a tree on the long exodus from an Armenian village, who reaches with tiny hands to touch the stars and dies with his name unrecorded.
 
Through the lives depicted in Three Apples Fell From Heaven, we witness the vanishing of a people. Together, the stories of these lives form a narrative mosaic—faceted, complex, richly textured, a devastating tableau.

About the Author

Micheline Aharonian Marcom was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and raised in Los Angeles.  She has published five novels, including a trilogy of books about the Armenian genocide and its aftermath in the twentieth century, and The Brick House.  She has received fellowships and awards from the Lannan Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the US Artists’ Foundation.  Her first novel, Three Apples Fell From Heaven, was a New York Times Notable Book and Runner-Up for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction.  Her second novel, The Daydreaming Boy, won the PEN/USA Award for Fiction.  In 2008, Marcom taught in Beirut, Lebanon on a Fulbright Fellowship.  Marcom lives in Northern California where she teaches Creative Writing at Mills College.  She is also on faculty at Goddard College in the MFA program in Creative Writing.