The curious and rebellious young woman and the haunted and melancholy young man come together in an inevitable romance. Having been separated from his wife and baby during the insurgency against the Turks in the city of Van, he has come to Aleppo in the apparently futile hope of finding his deported family. Through them, Elizabeth meets their friend Armen Petrosian, an Armenian engineer. Shooting images of the dead and dying Armenians are two German soldiers, whose government is allied with the Ottoman Empire.Īppalled by what their leaders are condoning, the soldiers systematically and seditiously document the carnage in the hope that by revealing it, they can stop it. Bohjalian succeeds in depicting the horror, without sentimentalizing it, using photographs as one of the book’s major plot devices. That detailed, clinical language works to great effect.
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