Author Nancy Kricorian will be at the Harvard Coop Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. presenting a slideshow about the research that went into the writing of her third novel, All the Light There Was, on Friday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. The book is about Armenians in Paris during World War II.
All the Light There Was, published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has just been released in paperback by She Writes Press. It is the story of Maral Pegorian, who is fourteen years old when the Nazis come marching down the Rue de Belleville in her Paris neighborhood. Her family, like many other Armenians who survived the genocide in their homeland, had come to France to build a new life. When the war started, the adults immediately set about gathering food and provisions, bracing for the deprivation they know all too well but Maral, her brother Missak, and their close friends Zaven and Barkev are spurred to action of another sort, finding secret and not-so-secret ways to resist their oppressors.
Kricorian’s novel was hailed by Library Journal as, “Moving. . . With a bittersweet love story, examples of everyday heroism, and a community refusing to give in to tyrants, Kricorian’s work sheds even more light on the German occupation of France.” Chris Bohjalian wrote, ““Nancy Kricorian is a gem, her work subtle and nuanced and moving. All the Light There Was brings Nazi-occupied Paris vividly, tragically, and heroically to life.”
The Harvard Coop Bookstore is located at 1400 Massachusetts Avenue in Harvard Square. The phone number at the Coop is (617) 499-2000.
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