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Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian (2012, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780385534796
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385534795
ISBN-13
9780385534796
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112030008
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sandcastle Girls
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Contemporary Women, Sagas, Family Life, Romance / Historical / General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-050285
Reviews
"Chris Bohjalian is at his very finest in this searing story of love and war. I was mesmerized from page one. Bravo!" -Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife "In his latest novel, master storyteller Chris Bohjalian explores the ways in which our ancestral past informs our contemporary lives--in ways we understand and ways that remain mysteriously out of reach. The Sandcastle Girls is deft, layered, eye-opening, and riveting. I was deeply moved." -Wally Lamb, "In his latest novel, master storyteller Chris Bohjalian explores the ways in which our ancestral past informs our contemporary lives--in ways we understand and ways that remain mysteriously out of reach. The Sandcastle Girls is deft, layered, eye-opening, and riveting. I was deeply moved." -Wally Lamb, "The granddaughter of an Armenian and a Bostonian investigates the Armenian genocide, discovering that her grandmother took a guilty secret to her grave. . . . [An] unforgettable exposition of the still too-little-known facts of the Armenian genocide and its multigenerational consequences." - Kirkus (starred review) "Chris Bohjalian is at his very finest in this searing story of love and war. I was mesmerized from page one. Bravo!" -Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife "In his latest novel, master storyteller Chris Bohjalian explores the ways in which our ancestral past informs our contemporary lives--in ways we understand and ways that remain mysteriously out of reach. The Sandcastle Girls is deft, layered, eye-opening, and riveting. I was deeply moved." -Wally Lamb, "Chris Bohjalian is at his very finest in this searing story of love and war. With breathtaking richness and accuracy, he fully delivers us to Syria in 1915, with all its difficult history. I was mesmerized from page one. Bravo!" -Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife "In his latest novel, master storyteller Chris Bohjalian explores the ways in which our ancestral past informs our contemporary lives--in ways we understand and ways that remain mysteriously out of reach. The Sandcastle Girls is deft, layered, eye-opening, and riveting. I was deeply moved." -Wally Lamb, "A compelling new novel that is part love story, part history lesson . . . An eye-opening tale of longing and discovery [and] bittersweet reflection on hope even in the darkest circumstances. . . . Bohjalian's book is about the ways the past informs the present, about the pain but also the richness of heritage. . . . Remarkable." -Amy Driscoll, The Miami Herald "Bohjalian deftly weaves the many threads of this story back and forth from past to present, from abuse to humanity, from devastation to redemption. His ability to add irony and wit makes the contrasting horrors even more intense. . . . Staggering [and] utterly riveting . . . [A] valuable and powerful piece of evidence pointing to the undeniable." -Eugenia Zukerman , The Washington Post "Stirring . . . The Sandcastle Girls wraps the threads of a significant historic event around a deeply moving story of survival and enduring love." -Carol Memmott, USA Today "Cool and lucid . . . With Armen and Elizabeth, Bohjalian has fulfilled the duty of anyone seeking to document a genocide-he ensures that we don't look away." -Julie Wittes Schlack, The Boston Globe "Dead-solid perfect. Bohjalian is a literary novelist unafraid to reference Proust's madeleine and expect readers to get it. But his books are also filled with artfully drawn characters and great, passionate storytelling. The Sandcastle Girls is all that, but different, more powerful." -Curt Schleier, The Seattle Times "Bohjalian-the grandson of Armenian survivors-pours passion, pride, and sadness into his tale of ethnic destruction and endurance." -Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly "[A] great read . . . An affecting tale set at the time of a lesser-known holocaust, 1915's Armenian genocide." - People "Chris Bohjalian is at his very finest in this searing story of love and war. I was mesmerized from page one. Bravo!" -Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife "In his latest novel, master storyteller Chris Bohjalian explores the ways in which our ancestral past informs our contemporary lives-in ways we understand and ways that remain mysteriously out of reach. The Sandcastle Girls is deft, layered, eye-opening, and riveting. I was deeply moved." -Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed "Bohjalian's powerful novel . . . depicts the Armenian genocide and one contemporary novelist's quest to uncover her heritage. . . . His storytelling makes this a beautiful, frightening, and unforgettable read." - Publishers Weekly "Bohjalian powerfully narrates an intricately nuanced romance with a complicated historical event at the forefront. With the centennial of the Armenian genocide fast approaching, this is not to be missed. Simply astounding." -Julie Kane, Library Journal (starred) "An unforgettable exposition of the still too-little-known facts of the Armenian genocide and its multigenerational consequences." -Kirkus Reviews (starred) "A powerful and moving story based on real events seldom discussed. It will leave you reeling." - Elizabeth Dickie, Booklist From the Hardcover edition., "Chris Bohjalian is at his very finest in this searing story of love and war. I was mesmerized from page one. Bravo!" -Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife "In his latest novel, master storyteller Chris Bohjalian explores the ways in which our ancestral past informs our contemporary lives-in ways we understand and ways that remain mysteriously out of reach. The Sandcastle Girls is deft, layered, eye-opening, and riveting. I was deeply moved." -Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed "Bohjalian's powerful novel . . . depicts the Armenian genocide and one contemporary novelist's quest to uncover her heritage. . . . His storytelling makes this a beautiful, frightening, and unforgettable read." - Publishers Weekly "An unforgettable exposition of the still too-little-known facts of the Armenian genocide and its multigenerational consequences." -Kirkus Reviews (starred) "A powerful and moving story based on real events seldom discussed. It will leave you reeling." - Elizabeth Dickie, Booklist From the Hardcover edition.
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Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Parallel stories of a woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier during the Armenian Genocide and a modern-day New Yorker prompted to rediscover her Armenian past., Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter's night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. The Double Bind perfectly conjured the Roaring Twenties on Long Island--and a young social worker's descent into madness. And Skeletons at the Feast chronicled the last six months of World War Two in Poland and Germany with nail-biting authenticity. As The Washington Post Book World has noted, Bohjalian writes "the sorts of books people stay awake all night to finish." In his fifteenth book, The Sandcastle Girls , he brings us on a very different kind of journey. This spellbinding tale travels between Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012--a sweeping historical love story steeped in the author's Armenian heritage, making it his most personal novel to date. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke College, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The First World War is spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide. There, Elizabeth becomes friendly with Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he has fallen in love with the wealthy, young American woman who is so different from the wife he lost.Flash forward to the present, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in suburban New York. Although her grandparents' ornate Pelham home was affectionately nicknamed the "Ottoman Annex," Laura has never really given her Armenian heritage much thought. But when an old friend calls, claiming to have seen a newspaper photo of Laura's grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston museum, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family's history that reveals love, loss--and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.
LC Classification Number
PS3552.O495S26 2012
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