My Grandmother

When Fethiye Cetin was growing up in the small Turkish town of Maden, she knew her grandmother as a happy and universally respected Muslim housewife. It would be decades before her grandmother told her the truth: that she was by birth a Christian and an Armenian, that her name was not Seher but Heranush, that most of the men in her village had been slaughtered in 1915, that she, along with most of the women and children, had been sent on a death march. She had been saved (and torn from her mother's arms) by the Turkish gendarme captain who went on to adopt her. But she knew she still had family in America. Could Fethiye help her find her lost relations before she died? There are an estimated two million Turks whose grandparents could tell them similar stories. But in a country that maintains the Armenian genocide never happened, such talk can be dangerous. In her heartwrenching memoir, Fethiye Cetin breaks the silence.

ISBN 1844671690   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781844671694 (What's this?)   Pages 160 Publisher Verso Books   Volumes 1 Imprint Verso Books   Weight (grammes) 272 Format Hardback   Published in London Publication date 08 May 2008   Height (mm) 210 Translator Maureen Freely   Width (mm) 140 Writer of introduction Elif Shafak   Spine width (mm) 16 Library of Congress DS195.5   Academic level General DEWEY 956.620154092

A compelling and beautifully written account of family stories and secrets, and a heartfelt call to peace and harmony.--Elif Shafak

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