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‘We Are Still the Mountain’: An Interview with Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian is the kind of author who grabs you by the heart and refuses to let go. How he can manipulate several plots simultaneously, travel cross country promoting his work, raise a family, and enjoy a private life calls for a supreme juggling act.
Of the 15 books he has written, his latest—The Sandcastle Girls—could very well be his best. If not the ultimate, at l
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We are proud of Chris
And we will be always proud
Being Half-Armenian and
Caring for Armenians and their genocide…
The cover of the book is so beautiful and melancholic
That when i look at it…
I feel my self …
As if …I’m there with my beloveds…in Der-Zor desert
Standing…on a hill… full of skeletons under my feet
Imaging smashed eyeballs still wet with tears
And i can feel and see their genocided hands pointing to sky
Calling saints…calling Jesus …calling mercyful God
Singing ‘Sharagans’ (hymns) of Gomidas
Can Chris’s book, which carries name of Christ answer why…!!!
(c) Sylva-MD-Poetry
Bravo… May God give you strength and more ideas to write more books about our people and hope that the current book turns into a movie…
Gayane
Fluid Dynamics
Five moves in five years.
I started to feel/wish l was a huge boulder;
unwilling to budge anymore.
But when the time came, I did…
A chip off the mountain,
both stationary and fluid,
I am still the mountain.
Our mystical mountain is also a river,
branching off into streams that carry us far away,
and become tributaries to other mountains,
other rivers, in other lands.
Yet, the ebb and flow,
which is our nature,
is grounded by our mountain.
Perhaps physics can teach us.
how the inert rediscovers its momentum,
how the undead find life again.
Or how the dead find their rest.
(c) 7-5-2012
When will Sandcastle Girls be translated into Russian, and can I pre-order it? I very much want to read it and then let friends and family know about the book in Yerevan.
Loved Sand Castle Girls. I’m 100% Armenian, and my grandparents families were in the genoicde, My grandmother’s stories were not detailed, but Sand Castle Girls nails it.
As some one who has done some writing, I understand not wanting to show certain things to the general public thinking it’s not refined enough, but please tell me why you won’t publish your first genocide book?
Why can’t we see it? I’ll bet it’s important.