FORGOTTEN BREAD: First-Generation Armenian American Writers

Kherdian, David (ed.)

ISBN 10: 1597140694 / ISBN 13: 9781597140690

Published by Heyday Books, Berkeley, 2007

About this Item

Gift inscription signed by author; 495 pages. Hardbound in very good condition in a very good dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FORGOTTEN BREAD: First-Generation Armenian American Writers
• Publisher: Heyday Books, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597140694
• ISBN 13: 9781597140690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Forging identity from loss first-generation Armenian American writing This is an outstanding collection of literature from seventeen first-generation Armenian American authors, each introduced here by a member of the second generation. For the many readers who are unfamiliar with all but the most famous of these authors William Saroyan and Michael J. Arlen, for example powerful discoveries await: the writing in this volume is intense, magical, and filled with love of life. It is also characterized by the unspeakable sadness that accompanied the loss of so many Armenians in the genocide of 1915. Many of those who survived the genocide found their way to America, and writing became a salvation for talented young Armenian Americans in their struggle for dignity, identity, and meaning in their adopted country. Suffused with a sense of history, colored by personal experience, and imbued with the hopefulness of a fresh start, these stories convey what history books cannot. What coalesces, instead, is a deeply American story of the forces that propel individuals forward into a new world.

About the Author

David Kherdian is the author of more than sixty books of poetry and prose. His work has been translated into thirteen languages and published in twelve countries around the world. He is the editor of nine anthologies, in addition to the journals Ararat (an Armenian American literary journal), Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic American Literature, and Stopinder: A Gurdjieff Journal for Our Time. He has founded three small presses (The Giligia Press, Two Rivers Press, and The Press at Butternut Creek) and has been the recipient of many honors, including a nomination for the National Book Award.