Gracie said, "TURKEY:
The Tales of Khodja (you'll find it spelled in many ways - but the Hodja is a wonderful character from Turkish lore)
AND Rise the Euphrates by Carol Edgarian (a wonderful book about a terrible, terrible time)."
Tales of Nasreddin Khoja: 181 Mulla Nasreddin Stories was translated from the Turkish by Henry D. Barnham. Here is a collection of 181 of the funniest and best-known Mulla Nasreddin stories. Mulla Nasreddin, as he is known in the Persian-speaking world, is a humorous witty character that goes by different names in different cultures. Iranians, Arabs, and Turks still bicker about who he was and where he was from. What can be said is that Mulla is a universal character on which are framed various humorous, philosophical, moral, or pedagogic anecdotes. A Mulla Nasreddin anecdote is often used to emphasize a point. Most read a funny story. However, in the same tale, a Sufi may see multiple strands of mystic meaning and a revolutionary will see the idea of resistance to authority. Depending on the reader and the time, Nasreddin may be more of a wise man, a jester, a rebel, or a philosopher.
Rise the Euphrates vividly brings to life a historic tragedy - the world's first modern genocide - and illuminates the archetypal pattern in which the first generation denies, the second generation forgets and the third generation rediscovers the event. At the heart of the story is a moment of survival when a young girl narrowly escapes a holocaust - the 1915 Turkish massacre of over one million Armenian men, women and children. In the diaspora that follows, the girl comes to America bearing a legacy of trauma that her granddaughter Seta will be left to explain. Seta is the chosen one, the one upon whom the generations pin their hope and despair.
Rise the Euphrates vividly brings to life a historic tragedy - the world's first modern genocide - and illuminates the archetypal pattern in which the first generation denies, the second generation forgets and the third generation rediscovers the event.
You can read an excerpt here.
Tales of Nasreddin Khoja: 181 Mulla Nasreddin Stories was translated from the Turkish by Henry D. Barnham. Here is a collection of 181 of the funniest and best-known Mulla Nasreddin stories. Mulla Nasreddin, as he is known in the Persian-speaking world, is a humorous witty character that goes by different names in different cultures. Iranians, Arabs, and Turks still bicker about who he was and where he was from. What can be said is that Mulla is a universal character on which are framed various humorous, philosophical, moral, or pedagogic anecdotes. A Mulla Nasreddin anecdote is often used to emphasize a point. Most read a funny story. However, in the same tale, a Sufi may see multiple strands of mystic meaning and a revolutionary will see the idea of resistance to authority. Depending on the reader and the time, Nasreddin may be more of a wise man, a jester, a rebel, or a philosopher.
Rise the Euphrates vividly brings to life a historic tragedy - the world's first modern genocide - and illuminates the archetypal pattern in which the first generation denies, the second generation forgets and the third generation rediscovers the event. At the heart of the story is a moment of survival when a young girl narrowly escapes a holocaust - the 1915 Turkish massacre of over one million Armenian men, women and children. In the diaspora that follows, the girl comes to America bearing a legacy of trauma that her granddaughter Seta will be left to explain. Seta is the chosen one, the one upon whom the generations pin their hope and despair. Rise the Euphrates vividly brings to life a historic tragedy - the world's first modern genocide - and illuminates the archetypal pattern in which the first generation denies, the second generation forgets and the third generation rediscovers the event. You can read an excerpt here.
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