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A Lamp Lights The Way Back
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''A Lamp Lights The Way Back'' is a memoir. However, it does not appear to be just personal as most of the memoirs do. It speaks about the whole era, which are also based on my ancestors' tales. I knitted my parents' memories with my own ones to tell the readers how my parents and grandparents lived at the time of Soviet terror, and how Armenia lost many of its precious lands with their historical and cultural heritage. I do not only speak of the events what my eyes have seen, but what my ears heard as well. My memories go back and ahead, too. They roam from past to present, speaking about life and death, wars and peace, happiness and unhappiness. My ears heard about the Second World War, but my eyes saw the war that happened on the Armenian borders and Artsakh at the time of the global pandemic of covid. I think the loss of Artsakh was another genocide that happened to my nation.
My memoir reflects a human condition, which may refer not only to me, but anyone else as well.
Due to the metaphors, allegorical expressions and poetic descriptions my memoir looks like a novel to be read with a great interest.
''A Lamp Lights The Way Back'' is a memoir. However, it does not appear to be just personal as most of the memoirs do. It speaks about the whole era, which are also based on my ancestors' tales. I knitted my parents' memories with my own ones to tell the readers how my parents and grandparents lived at the time of Soviet terror, and how Armenia lost many of its precious lands with their historical and cultural heritage. I do not only speak of the events what my eyes have seen, but what my ears heard as well. My memories go back and ahead, too. They roam from past to present, speaking about life and death, wars and peace, happiness and unhappiness. My ears heard about the Second World War, but my eyes saw the war that happened on the Armenian borders and Artsakh at the time of the global pandemic of covid. I think the loss of Artsakh was another genocide that happened to my nation.
My memoir reflects a human condition, which may refer not only to me, but anyone else as well.
Due to the metaphors, allegorical expressions and poetic descriptions my memoir looks like a novel to be read with a great interest.
A Lamp Lights The Way Back
From my book
I sometimes think I met my grandfather, but I didn't. I could not have met him, as he had died long before I was born. I just met him in my granny's memories. I found out what it was like to live under Stalin's rule. It was a cruel period of time. Never did fears disappear from my granny's eyes. My grandparents and parents had to live with some scary thoughts of being imprisoned or exiled to Siberia. My grandfather was a medical doctor. Mostly intellectual and educated people were arrested first. My grandfather was one of them. One night he did not come back home. My granny did not sleep at night. She sent her teenage daughters to the bedroom to sleep and began packing the suitcase. First of all she packed the warm clothes, woollen socks and stockings, that she had knitted herself. My mother was her oldest daughter. She pretended as if she was sleeping, but she was thinking of the black car, taking people away from their homes. My mother was told why the people in their neighbourhood were afraid to say a word about that evil night car. She had already survived diphtheria and felt weak. My granny thought what would happen to her in a camp in cold winters of Siberia. It was not karma but a project to make innocent people suffer...
Product details
ASIN : B0D2LNXRV6
Publisher : Independently published (April 22, 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 67 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8323639717
Item Weight : 3.71 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.16 x 9 inches
Product details
ASIN : B0D2DJ526Y
Publication date : April 26, 2024
Language : English
File size : 2047 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 70 pages
I sometimes think I met my grandfather, but I didn't. I could not have met him, as he had died long before I was born. I just met him in my granny's memories. I found out what it was like to live under Stalin's rule. It was a cruel period of time. Never did fears disappear from my granny's eyes. My grandparents and parents had to live with some scary thoughts of being imprisoned or exiled to Siberia. My grandfather was a medical doctor. Mostly intellectual and educated people were arrested first. My grandfather was one of them. One night he did not come back home. My granny did not sleep at night. She sent her teenage daughters to the bedroom to sleep and began packing the suitcase. First of all she packed the warm clothes, woollen socks and stockings, that she had knitted herself. My mother was her oldest daughter. She pretended as if she was sleeping, but she was thinking of the black car, taking people away from their homes. My mother was told why the people in their neighbourhood were afraid to say a word about that evil night car. She had already survived diphtheria and felt weak. My granny thought what would happen to her in a camp in cold winters of Siberia. It was not karma but a project to make innocent people suffer...
Product details
ASIN : B0D2LNXRV6
Publisher : Independently published (April 22, 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 67 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8323639717
Item Weight : 3.71 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.16 x 9 inches
Product details
ASIN : B0D2DJ526Y
Publication date : April 26, 2024
Language : English
File size : 2047 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 70 pages
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