The Road from Home (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: David Kherdian
- First Published: 1979
- Time of Work: 1907–1924
- Setting: Turkey, Syria, and Greece
- Principal Characters: Veron Dumehjian, Benyat Dumehjian, Aghavni Dumehjian, Yeghisapet, Apkar, Aunt Lousapere, Uncle Apraham, Grandma, Uncles Apel, Takvor, Geulia
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Adolescence, World War I, Epidemics, Biography, Armenia or Armenians, Genocide
- Locales: Greece, Turkey, Syria
Form and Content
One atrocity committed in the early twentieth century was the attempt by the government of Turkey to exterminate the Armenian people. This holocaust rivaled Adolf Hitler’s attempt to destroy the Jews, yet it is a little-known historical occurrence to most children and adolescents. David Kherdian’s The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl describes his mother’s childhood and adolescence against the background of the events that culminated in World War I and postwar hostilities between Greece and Turkey. Using the form of a fictionalized...
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