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Passage to Ararat

> All my life, Armenia and Armenians had been part of a dream; it and they were out there somewhere, hazy, nearly invisible. Now I was traveling into the dream. I would see what I would see. I would find what I would find. -Michael J. Arlen (author)

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> Arlen has combined history with his search for cultural identity, thus making the meaning of great events personal and urgent, and the significance of a personal story universal... all this makes PASSAGE TO ARARAT continually irresistible. -THE NEW YORK TIMES

> What is most valuable about this quiet, burning book is that the journey its author made can take you part of the way down the trail of your own. -ROLLING STONE

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 293 pages

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