Zabel Yessayan: In The Ruins, the 1909 Massacres of Armenians in Adana, Turkey (softcover)

In 1909, following the Turkish massacre of 30,000 Armenians in Adana, Turkey, Armenian writer and activist Zabel Yessayan (1878-1943) journeyed to the region to provide relief to survivors. She wrote her monumental account In the Ruins as a powerful testimony of this devastating event, considered a prelude to the Genocide of 1915, of which she would become a survivor. Her compelling images convey the horror and destruction she witnessed. Translated by G. M. Goshgarian into English in its entirety for the first time, In the Ruins has been acclaimed as one of Yessayan’s most influential works, where “our national sensibility is condensed with an intensity, a humanity, and an authenticity that is unrivaled in our ancient or modern literatures” (Hagop Oshagan).