- Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Greenwillow Books; Auflage: Beech Tree. (24. August 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 068814425X
- ISBN-13: 978-0688144258
- Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: Ab 13 Jahren
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,4 x 10,5 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.9 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (8 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 504.095 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.
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A biography of the author's mother, concentrating on her childhood in Turkey before the Turkish govennment deported its Armenian population.
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For as long as I knew the sky and the clouds, we lived in our white stucco house in the Armenian quarter of Azizva, in Turkey, but when the great dome of Heaven cracked and shattered over our lives, and we were abandoned by the sun and blown like scattered seed across the Arabian desert, none returned but me, and my Azizva, my precious home, was made to crumble and fall and forever disappear from my life. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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For as long as I knew the sky and the clouds, we lived in our white stucco house in the Armenian quarter of Azizva, in Turkey, but when the great dome of Heaven cracked and shattered over our lives, and we were abandoned by the sun and blown like scattered seed across the Arabian desert, none returned but me, and my Azizva, my precious home, was made to crumble and fall and forever disappear from my life. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Format:Bibliothekseinband
I had to read a book for Honors Language Arts and felt that this book is really good. Number the Stars was good but this book is excellent!
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I thought this was an excellent book. It gave me a better understanding on my Armenian backround. It's a true story about a young girl growing up in the 1900's. Everything was great until one day bombs went off and her family had to flee. Just imagine being a young woman and having to leave your life behind and run for your life, not knowing what will happen in the future. Seeing your family and friends be robbed, raped, starved, beaten, and worse killed. The Armenians did no crimes they were just hated. This is a very similar expierence that my family went through. I think young adults and adults should read this book because, we can develop a deeper understanding of our past.
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THE ROAD FROM HOME, A True Story of Courage, Survival and Hope by David Kherdian, Beech Tree Books Reviewed by Y. Stephen Bulbulian Although considered juvenile literature, poet David Kherdian's award-winning story of his mother's young life is a story of silent determination, hope and ultimately survival. This is far more than juvenile literature. Through unbelievable adversity and suffering, there is astounding good luck and grace in the face of misfortune. "The Road From Home" is also a sociological slice of life into the being and ways of the Armenians, historic inhabitants of Anatolia, now Turkish territory. Driven from their homes and massacred, this is a classic story of Armenian survival. The young girl, Veron Dumehjian, lived a placid life in the home of her well-to-do family. She loved her family home and the garden with "the poppies that grew beyond [the] garden wall." Her desire to return to the garden kept her hopes up during years of adversity. Kherdian describes the customs, traditions, holidays, rituals, the Armenian words, and even the food, that immortalizes the life of the peaceful people, annihilated by the Turkish genocide. This book is excellent sociology, written as no sociologist could.
In her eighth year, Veron's life, the Armenian homes and countryside are darkened by the black cloud of Turkish repression. In the latter-days of the previous century, and in 1909, in Adana, Armenians suffered barbarities at the hands of the Turks, under the rule of Abdul Hamid..
Young Veron began hearing words like "deportation, massacres and annihilation." Her uncles were conscripted into the Turkish army; World War One had broken out. Using the war as an excuse, the Turks began a protracted annihilation of the Armenians. Given three days to prepare, the Dumehjian family began their forced march from the family home into the Syrian desert. Veron slowly loses all of her immediate family, brother, sister, mother, father, grandfather during the course of the journey. She becomes an orphan, nearly starved and survives with the help of deposed women (aunties) from her village. Ending up in an orphanage in Aleppo, she becomes reacquainted with relatives. Miraculously, she returns to her beloved grandmother, still living in the family home in the old village, only to discover she could not return to the idealized home she dreamed of. All things had changed, all lives were irreparably damaged by the lose of loved ones and the destruction of the Armenians. Her own grandmother, with her family lost, becomes Veron's slave-master.
Relocated in Smyrna, on the Mediterranean coast, Veron lives through yet another round of atrocities at the hands of the Turks. With uncommon luck, she and an aunt are rescued and sent to a refugee camp in Greece, where life begins again in the pursuit of normalcy. From there, she becomes a gracious and beautiful young women and a fiancee to a pre-arranged marriage in America.
"The Road From Home, " is the story of insurmountable hardship and suffering inflicted on the soul of an innocent young girl. Her ability to block the horror and tragedy from her thoughts, sublimating the pain and death she experienced daily during the darkest moments, summonsed her strength and fortitude to live. Many souls were trampled, giving her life beauty and triumph.
An outstanding and award-winning book, it is the winner of the Newbery Honor Book Award, the Jane Addams Peace Award and many others. David Kherdian crafts his mother's story, a history similar to thousands of Armenian survivors in diaspora, a sad story filled with overriding hope. The magnitude of the story and the young girl's resilience, where strength and determination overcome adversity, makes this a moving and memorable reading experience, and a story to be remembered and retold.
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A well written, important memior.
I have read fiction and non-fiction about the Armenian holocaust of 1915, this is the best biography I've read about a survivor. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. September 1998 veröffentlicht
Most people are not aware of the Armenian Holocaust.
The author's mother was a young girl living in a small town in Armenia when the Turkish Army invaded. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
Great tribute to almost forgotten tragedy.
This was a wonderful book. It talks about a period in time which is too often disregarded. I thought that it was good for younger children too in a way many books on the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Juni 1998 veröffentlicht
A young girl survives the Armenian holocaust.
Although this book may have been written for children and young adults it can be enjoyed by all adult readers. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. April 1998 veröffentlicht
The best children's book that I have ever read
The road from home is perhaps the best children's book I've ever read. The genocide of the Armenians is a period of history that is greatly overlooked. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. März 1998 von akiva@megsinet.net
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