Rise the Euphrates: 20th Anniversary Edition with an

Rise the Euphrates: 20th Anniversary Edition with an Introduction by the Author

An international bestseller, now available in this twentieth-anniversary revised edition, Rise the Euphrates reaches back to 1915, when nine-year-old Casard witnesses the massacre of her family during the Armenian genocide. Casard emigrates to America to put the unspeakable past behind her; yet as the years pass and her only daughter, Araxie, marries outside the clan, making her husband and their children odarâ€”outsidersâ€”the rift between mother and daughter threatens once again to tear the family apart. It falls to Seta, the novelâ€™s lyrical narrator and Casardâ€™s granddaughter, to alter her familyâ€™s legacy. â€œThe daughter assumes what is unfinished in her motherâ€™s life,â€ Seta learns. Caught between the generations, and between the American and Armenian cultures in her Connecticut town, Seta confronts the fiercest division: the one within herself. The wisdom she gains frees the next generation in Carol Edgarianâ€™s stunningly original and groundbreaking novel.

PRAISE FOR RISE THE EUPHRATES

"This is a book whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity and finally ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today â€” daring, heartbreaking and affirmative, giving order and sense to our random lives." â€”Washington Post Book World

â€œEdgarianâ€™s sumptuous writing and uncommon wisdom about the human spirit and its maiming seep into a readerâ€™s heart, refusing to leave. This is a stunning debut, a book that will doubtless haunt its readers as it beguiles them." â€”The Miami Herald

"...Vivid, chilling...RISE THE EUPHRATES' richly drawn characters and the haunted voice of the narrator will long remain in readers' memories." â€”Robert Stone

"How often do you get to read a book that captures you so entirely and deeply that it controls your days, measures them out and defines them by how long it will be before you can get to your next night's reading? RISE THE EUPHRATES is on of these rare treasures: a work of power, grace, beauty and exquisite tenderness. This book goes beyond the reading experience; it reminds you of your own hopes and terrors. RISE THE EUPHRATES will live for a long, long time in the manner of Wallace Stegner's "Angle of Repose" and Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." â€”Rick Bass

"A novel of extraordinary compassion, it's also a dead-on view of assimilation and the American experience." â€”Phoenix Gazette

"The writing is so good it can raise the hairs on your neck." â€”Elizabeth Berg, Mademoiselle

â€œTo the list of well-wrought generational sagasâ€”John Steinbeckâ€™s East of Eden, Alex Haleyâ€™s Roots, and Amy Tanâ€™s The Joy Luck Clubâ€”add [Carol Edgarianâ€™s] powerful first novel, RISE THE EUPHRATES.â€ â€”Seattle Post-Intelligencer

â€œFew first novels are as deeply felt, yet so clearly communicative, as this one. It touches universals while powerfully evoking the everyday world in which we cope within our families with past, present and future. . . . Edgarianâ€™s novel has literary award written on every page.â€ â€”The San Diego Union-Tribune

â€œRISE THE EUPHRATES is an important, powerful, poignant novel. . . . Carol Edgarianâ€™s prodigious talents as a storyteller, her ability to account what there was and was not for these Armenian Americans, should not be missed.â€ â€”Don Lee, Ploughshares

â€œRISE THE EUPHRATES packs an emotional wallop.â€ â€”Elle

â€œWhere is Armenia today? . . . One could almost say that Armenia persists in Carol Edgarianâ€™s prose.â€ â€”New York Times Book Review

â€œA beautiful and generous book.â€ â€”Chicago Tribune

â€œOne of the summerâ€™s Best Reads!â€ â€”Vogue

â€œRISE THE EUPHRATES will draw any reader into Edgarianâ€™s spell.â€ â€”Georgia Guardian

â€œIn Edgarianâ€™s hands [the novel] becomes a richly woven tale spanning three generations of women.â€ â€”Hartford Advocate
Country USA
Manufacturer Narrative Library
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-03-25
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Narrative Library
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-03-25
Format	Kindle eBook

Rise the Euphrates: 20th Anniversary Edition with an Introduction by the Author

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