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My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir

My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir

Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Ã‡etin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.

Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmotherâ€™s name was not Seher but Heranus. She was born a Christian Armenian. Most of the men in her village had been slaughtered in 1915. A Turkish gendarme had stolen her from her mother and adopted her. Ã‡etinâ€™s family history tied her directly to the terrible origins of modern Turkey and the organized denial of its Ottoman past as the shared home of many faiths and ways of life.

A deeply affecting memoir, My Grandmother is also a step towards another kind of Turkey, one that is finally at peace with its past.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrations, ports.
Model Illustrations, ports.
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2012-07-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781844678679

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