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Harrowing journey through Armenian Genocide survival.

If history and personal triumphs move you, "The Hundred-Year Walk" could be a profound experience. It's a window into the Armenian Genocide from the perspective of one who lived through it. The fact that the story is real adds a layer of intensity and emotional complexity that makes it more than just a history lesson; it's a lesson in resilience and the human spirit's capacity to endure.

  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2017)
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey

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ISBN: 9780618982660
Date of Publication: 2016-01-12
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Travel, Biographies & Memoirs
Goodreads rating: 4.27
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An epic tale of one man’s courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter’s quest to tell his story. In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian’s world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government’s mass deportation of Armenians into internment camps. Gradually realizing the unthinkable—that they are all being driven to their deaths—he fights, through starvation and thirst, not to lose hope. Just before killing squads slaughter his caravan during a forced desert march, Stepan manages to escape, making a perilous six-day trek to the Euphrates River carrying nothing more than two cups of water and one gold coin. In his desperate bid for survival, Stepan dons disguises, outmaneuvers gendarmes, and, when he least expects it, encounters the miraculous kindness of strangers. The Hundred-Year Walk alternates between Stepan’s saga and another journey that takes place a century later, after his family discovers his long-lost journals. Reading this rare firsthand account, his granddaughter Dawn MacKeen finds herself first drawn into the colorful bazaars before the war and then into the horrors Stepan later endured. Inspired to retrace his steps, she sets out alone to Turkey and Syria, shadowing her resourceful, resilient grandfather across a landscape still rife with tension. With his journals guiding her,
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