Requiem by Razmik Davoyan Forward Prize Published by Shearsman Books on

Published by Shearsman Books on 14

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Requiem by Razmik Davoyan Forward Prize Published by Shearsman Books onAfter the Ottoman empires entry into the First World War on 29 October 1914, the Armenians were accused in a few cases justly of conspiring with the advancing Russian forces to ensure Turkish defeats. The legend of Armenian treachery gave the Ottoman government the pretext to sanction measures designed to remove all traces of the Armenian population from the empire. For someone whose family suffered immeasurably, Requiem is an amazingly measured and