Books by Gurgen Mahari
Burning Orchards
by Gurgen Mahari
It's told very much from the inside and it's very satirical about the Armenian revolutionary parties and about the role they played in provoking and precipitating Turkish violence.
Interviews where books by Gurgen Mahari were recommended
Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide, recommended by Thomas de Waal
In 1915, amid the upheaval of the First World War, the Ottoman Empire carried out the mass deportation and killing of its Armenian population. Thomas de Waal, author of Great Catastrophe, chooses five memoirs that bring to life the experiences of those caught up in it — and the very different paths they followed afterwards.
