“Khodorchur: Lost Paradise—Memories of a Land and Its People” is about the steadfast people and beautiful land of Khodorchur (currently Sirakonaklar, Turkey), a cluster of historic Armenian villages referred to as Little Rome in the late 18th century. Its pages bring to life the customs and traditions of a hardy people who toiled to keep their land and identity against all odds, and who were eventually deported and nearly completely annihilated by the Young Turks during World War I.
“In memory of this group of Armenian Catholics, isolated in their mountainous range north of Erzerum, we have only a few photographs and this famous work published by the Mekhitarist fathers, a memorial that is indispensable,” says Raymond Kevorkian, historian and author of The Armenian Genocide: a Complete History.
This hushamadyan book is a complete translation of the original with enhancements. The volume contains 652 pages, 18 pages of plates, new maps, an update of the dialect, and an addendum on travel to the region by a survivor’s son. Published by Mayreni Publishing, Monterey, CA., it is currently available from the NAASR bookstore in Belmont, Mass., and on www.amazon.com.
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If you click on the amazon link, it says the book is currently unavailable. Please shake them up. Also, clicking on the link in this article should take you directly to the book on amazon. Sounds like a terrific book.
An eye opening travelogue for the new generation to know