The Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian's Armenian heritage. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The year is and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to help deliver food and medical . The Sandcastle Girls is all that, but different, more powerful.” — The Seattle Times “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/5(K). 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 and Bronxville, New York in —a sweeping historical love story steeped in the author’s Armenian heritage, making it his most personal novel to date.
The year will mark the th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, and it is likely that Chris Bohjalian's newest novel, "The Sandcastle Girls,'' will represent just the beginning of. The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian I sent a preview email to book members with these thoughts: If you haven't been able to access the book, please consider coming anyway, since we will mostly likely talk about general knowledge of genocides (the theme of Sandcastle Girls is Armenian genocide) or other works by Bohjalian. Free download or read online The Sandcastle Girls pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in July 17th , and was written by Chris Bohjalian. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Hardcover format. The main characters of this historical, historical fiction story are Elizabeth Endicott, Armen Petrosian.
The Sandcastle Girls Chris Bohjalian, Knopf Doubleday pp. ISBN Summary In his fifteenth book, The Sandcastle Girls, Chris Bohjalian takes us to a time and place—Syria, —that left haunting legacies for his Armenian heritage, making this his most personal novel to date. The Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian's Armenian heritage. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The year is and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to help deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide. The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian. Publication Date: Ap; Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction; Paperback: pages; Publisher: Vintage; ISBN ; ISBN
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