Skylark Farm, a novel, Antonia Arslan (softcover)

In this beautiful, wrenching novel—as lyrical and poignant as a fable—a family struggles for survival during the Armenian genocide.

After forty years in Venice, Yerwant is planning a long-awaited reunion with his family at their homestead in Turkey. But as joyful preparations being, Italy enters World War I and closes its border. At the same time, the Young Turks, determined to rid their nation of minorities, force his family on a brutal march of hunger and humiliation. We follow Yerwant’s relatives as they strain to stay alive and four children as they set out on a daring course to reach Yerwant—and safety—in Italy.