Zabel Yesayan’s “The Agony of a People: Haig Toroyan’s Eyewitness Account of the Armenian Genocide” published

LONDON/NEW YORK—I. B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has announced the publication of Zabel Yesayan’s The Agony of a People: Haig Toroyan’s Eyewitness Account of the Armenian Genocide. The account, translated by Arakel Minassian (University of Michigan) and Drs. Tamar Boyadjian (Stanford University) and Maral Aktokmakyan (independent scholar), is part of the series Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World edited by Bedross Der Matossian (University of Nebraska, Lincoln).  

The book project was led by Jennifer Langley, the great-niece of Haig Toroyan, and co-edited by Tamar Boyadjian and Maral Aktomakyan. It features an article by Aktomakyan titled “Translating Hokevark or the Untranslatable Life-form: A Prefatory Attempt Among Prefaces,” a historical background by Prof. Elyse Semerdjian (Clark University) titled “Between the Lines: Haig Toroyan’s Testimony and the Armenian Genocide,” and an afterword by renowned literary critic Prof. Marc Nichanian (independent scholar) titled “Testimony and Authorship: Zabel Yesayan’s The Agony of a People,” translated by Tamar Boyadjian.