A Summer Without Dawn

First edition in English. 8vo. 545 pp. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; map endpapers. List of Principal Characters. Armenian & Turkish Glossary to rear.

Translated from the French by Christina Le Vernoy and Joyce Bailey. Originally published as Un été sans aube by Editions Libre Expression, Montréal, in 1991.

"After all, who remembers the Armenian genocide?" –Hitler.

Vartan Balian scours the collapsing Ottoman Empire in search of his wife Maro and their six-year-old son, Tomas, both deported from their ancestral lands. An epic family saga that unfolds against the background of the Armenian genocide, during the birth-pangs of the modern Turkish Republic. "A gripping read. [...] A fascinating and very cinematic novel, written from the gut." –The Independent