Goodbye, Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide

"This searing account of a little boy wrenched from family and innocence" during the Armenian genocide "is a literary gem" (Financial Times).

When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years later, American aid workers found him at an orphanage in Antoura, Lebanon. He was among nearly a thousand Armenian and four hundred Kurdish children who had been abandoned by the Turkish administrators, left ...