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Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society - Boston Chapter
and The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
47 Nichols Avenue, Watertown, MA 02472
Contact: Ara Nazarian / Marc Mamigonian
Phone: 617.924-8894 / 617.489.1610
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Website: http://hamazkayin-boston.org/
http://www.naasr.org/
Talk at NAASR by Antonia Arslan, author of the Novel Skylark Farm
Antonia Arslan, author of the Italian best-seller La Masseria delle
Allodole, recently translated into English and published as Skylark
Farm, will speak on Thursday, May 17, at 8:00 p.m., at the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395
Concord Ave., Belmont, MA. This lecture, Arslan's only in the Boston
area, will be co-sponsored by the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and
Cultural Society's Boston Chapter and NAASR. The lecture will be
presented in English.
Antonia Arslan is a former professor of Italian literature at the
University of Padua and Skylark Farm is her first novel. A film
adaptation by the Oscar-winning filmmakers the Taviani Brothers has just
been released in Europe. Skylark Farm will be on sale and available for
signing by the author.
Acclaimed First Novel
Skylark Farm chronicles the life of a family struggling for survival
during the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. It has been
praised by the Christian Science Monitor as "unsparing" and "impossible
to stop reading." The book was also a New York Times Editor's Choice in
February 2007.
Arslan has drawn on the story of her own family to tell the story of
Skylark Farm. She has transformed the "obscure memories" that are her
heritage into a novel as lyrical and poignant as a fable.
She will discuss the background of the novel and how she came to write
it, the tremendous response to the book and the film in Europe, its
translation into English, and the impact such works can have in bringing
the Armenian story to readers who might otherwise never encounter it.
Admission to the event is free (donations appreciated). The NAASR
Center is located opposite the First Armenian Church and next to the
U.S. Post Office. Ample parking is available around the building and in
adjacent areas. The lecture will begin promptly at 8:00 p.m.
More information about the lecture is available by calling 617-489-1610,
faxing 617-484-1759, e-mailing [email protected], or writing to NAASR, 395
Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478.
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and The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
47 Nichols Avenue, Watertown, MA 02472
Contact: Ara Nazarian / Marc Mamigonian
Phone: 617.924-8894 / 617.489.1610
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Website: http://hamazkayin-boston.org/
http://www.naasr.org/
Talk at NAASR by Antonia Arslan, author of the Novel Skylark Farm
Antonia Arslan, author of the Italian best-seller La Masseria delle
Allodole, recently translated into English and published as Skylark
Farm, will speak on Thursday, May 17, at 8:00 p.m., at the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395
Concord Ave., Belmont, MA. This lecture, Arslan's only in the Boston
area, will be co-sponsored by the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and
Cultural Society's Boston Chapter and NAASR. The lecture will be
presented in English.
Antonia Arslan is a former professor of Italian literature at the
University of Padua and Skylark Farm is her first novel. A film
adaptation by the Oscar-winning filmmakers the Taviani Brothers has just
been released in Europe. Skylark Farm will be on sale and available for
signing by the author.
Acclaimed First Novel
Skylark Farm chronicles the life of a family struggling for survival
during the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. It has been
praised by the Christian Science Monitor as "unsparing" and "impossible
to stop reading." The book was also a New York Times Editor's Choice in
February 2007.
Arslan has drawn on the story of her own family to tell the story of
Skylark Farm. She has transformed the "obscure memories" that are her
heritage into a novel as lyrical and poignant as a fable.
She will discuss the background of the novel and how she came to write
it, the tremendous response to the book and the film in Europe, its
translation into English, and the impact such works can have in bringing
the Armenian story to readers who might otherwise never encounter it.
Admission to the event is free (donations appreciated). The NAASR
Center is located opposite the First Armenian Church and next to the
U.S. Post Office. Ample parking is available around the building and in
adjacent areas. The lecture will begin promptly at 8:00 p.m.
More information about the lecture is available by calling 617-489-1610,
faxing 617-484-1759, e-mailing [email protected], or writing to NAASR, 395
Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478.
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