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- Zabelle, the resilient heroine of poet Kricorian's haunting first novel, survives the 1915 Armenian genocide, goes into an orphanage and becomes a cook in a Turkish household before wealthy compatriots marry her off to a hard-working grocer in Watertown, Mass.
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Jan 1, 1998 · An exuberant and magical tale of an Armenian woman that encompasses her vivid life experiences through comic interactions and battles that she wages in her new country--with a domineering mother in-law, a tradition-bound husband, Americanized children, and the man she secretly loves.
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- Nancy Kricorian
Zabelle “Affecting…Haunting and convincing…There’s a fairy tale quality to the prose—a sense of wondrous and terrible things happening apart from human volition.” — THE NEW YORKER
Zabelle's burden is eased further when her mother-in-law finally fails to wake up one morning. But when widowhood arrives after 44 strained years of marriage, there's no relief—only sadness.
Zabelle: A Novel. Nancy Kricorian. Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, Sep 15, 2009 - Fiction - 256 pages. An Armenian immigrant’s journey from the author of Dreams of Bread and Fire. “Haunting and...
Mar 1, 1999 · Zabelle. Nancy Kricorian. Harper Collins, Mar 1, 1999 - Fiction - 256 pages. As Zabelle's family assembles for her funeral in present-day Massachusetts, it becomes clear that her...
- 0380732114, 9780380732111
- Nancy Kricorian
- Harper Collins, 1999
Read 59 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. As Zabelle's family assembles for her funeral in present-day Massachusetts, it becomes clea…
Sep 15, 2009 · Zabelle begins in a suburb of Boston with the quiet death of Zabelle Chahasbanian, an elderly widow and grandmother whose history remains vastly unknown to her family. But as the story shifts back in time to Zabelle’s childhood in the waning days of Ottoman Turkey, where she survives the 1915 Armenian genocide and near starvation in the ...
- Nancy Kricorian
