The award-winning story of a young Armenian man's harrowing escape from the massacre of his people and of his granddaughter's quest to retrace his steps ¶ “Part family heirloom, part history lesson, The Hundred-Year Walk is an emotionally poignant work, powerfully imagined and expertly crafted.”-Aline Ohanesian, author of Orhan's Inheritance ¶ Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard from her mother how her grandfather Stepan miraculously escaped from the Turks during the Armenian genocide of 1915, when more than one million people-half the Armenian population-were killed. |a MacKeen, Dawn Anahid |x Travel |z Syria. |a MacKeen, Dawn Anahid |x Travel |z Turkey. |a Desert survival |z Syria |x History |y 20th century. |a Escapes |z Armenia |x History |y 20th century. |a Young men |z Armenia |x History |v Biography. |a Armenian massacres survivors |v Biography. Red River - Headscarf, 2007 - Dreams Traded for Bread, 1915 - The Bath, 2007 - Water's Course, 1915/1916 - The Dead Zone, 2007 - Hell, 1916 - Welcome to Syria, 2007 - Desert's End, 1916 - My Shadow, 2007 - Tell the World, 1916 - The Sandstorm, 2007 - Part Four. The Exile - Breaking Stones, 1914 - People We Don't Mention, 2007 - Following Orders, 1915 - Under the Black Tree, 2007 - Night Train, 1915 - The Interior, 2007 - Infidel Mountains, 1915 - Part Three. Before - The Lost World, 2006 - Empty Plans, 1910 - Countdown, 2007 - Alphabet City, 1913 - Part Two. |a xii, 338 pages : |b illustrations |c 24 cm. |a Boston : |b Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, |c 2016. |a The hundred-year walk : |b an Armenian odyssey / |c Dawn Anahid MacKeen. "This previously untold story of survival and personal fortitude is on par with Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken."- Library Journal (starred review) Her readers will be rapt-and a lot smarter by the end."-Meghan Daum, author of The Problem with Everything "I am in awe of what Dawn MacKeen has done here. MacKeen's excavation of the past reveals both uncomfortable and uplifting lessons about our present."-Ari Shapiro, NPR "This book reminds us that the way we treat strangers can ripple out in ways we will never know. Their shared story is a testament to family, to home, and to the power of the human spirit to transcend the barriers of religion, ethnicity, and even time itself. Dawn uses his journals to guide her to the places he was imperiled and imprisoned and the desert he crossed with only half a bottle of water. In The Hundred-Year Walk, MacKeen alternates between Stepan's courageous account, drawn from his long-lost journals, and her own story as she attempts to retrace his steps, setting out alone to Turkey and Syria, shadowing her resourceful, resilient grandfather across a landscape still rife with tension. Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard from her mother how her grandfather Stepan miraculously escaped from the Turks during the Armenian genocide of 1915, when more than one million people-half the Armenian population-were killed. "An emotionally poignant work" of survival during the Armenian genocide (Aline Ohanesian, author of Orhan's Inheritance). A Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist and New York Post Must-Read.
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