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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. 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. 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. In his desperate bid for survival, Stepan dons disguises, outmaneuvers gendarmes, and, when he least expects it, encounters the miraculous kindness of strangers. 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. Gradually realizing the unthinkable-that they are all being driven to their deaths-he fights, through starvation and thirst, not to lose hope. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation of Armenians into internment camps. Overall a bit disappointing and I don't feel like I understand the period or the experience.In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. I got bored during these bits, even when truly terrible hardships and tragedy was being described. Unfortunately the sections telling the past are in the third person and the narrator is monotone.
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Its first person tale and lively narrator was good but these sections were too short. The other time period is about the events that Stephan experienced as an Armenian during a time of persecution. Her search is to find the places and people mentioned in a set of diaries which reveal Stephan's story. Events follow two time periods - a modern day journey by a young woman - relative of the man who suffered during early 1900s. For that reason, I chose this book, believing a memoir would be a more personal story than a history book. I didn't know anything about this period of history in relation to the fate of the Armenian people. Tragic historic events but lacks emotional punch Please don't hesitate to buy "The 100-year Walk" for an intensely engaging story.
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The poetry and imagery of the writing more than make up for the lightweight voice. This book needs a mature, melodious narrator. Mackeen speaks with such adolescent stridency. As a 35-year- old woman who is an accomplished (and brave) journalist, I don't believe Ms. The one criticism I have about this audiobook is the narration. She writes from her heart with the goal of sharing her family's history, not a fact-finding mission. Mackeen's decision not to weigh the narrative down with clinical details. He would have been bewildered by it, and much too busy surviving to worry about political doings. In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the two time Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys recreates the exuberance. He didn't have had access to the politics driving the massacre. She deftly tells the story of an ordinary man's journey through a horrific time, as he experienced it. This is not an in-depth study of the Armenian genocide or of the Ottoman Empire. sharing grandfather's and granddaughter's experiences from across the years. 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.Įverything a memoir should be. 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.
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Gradually realizing the unthinkable - that they are all being driven to their deaths - he fights, through starvation and thirst, not to lose hope. In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone.