ARMENIAN TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK OF MUSH TO BE PRESENTED ON FRIDAY

On Friday October 10, Dr. Vartan Matiossian, the Prelacy’s Executive Director and scholar, will present his Armenian translation of The Book of Mush, a novel by acclaimed Armenian-Italian writer Antonia Arslan. The event at St. Sarkis Church in Douglaston, New York, will introduce to the community the fabled story of one of the most treasured relics of Armenian heritage: the 13th-century Homiliary of Mush.  

Set in June 1915, during the Armenian Genocide, the novel follows five survivors fleeing their destroyed village in the Mush valley after the devastation wrought by the Ottoman Third Army. Among them are three women, a man, and a child—strangers brought together by tragedy and united by a sacred mission. Against all odds, they manage to rescue the Mush Homiliary, an immense manuscript of unparalleled historical and spiritual value. As they journey through a landscape of loss and violence, the manuscript becomes both talisman and testimony, binding them together in the name of survival and remembrance.