A Summer Without Dawn - Tapa dura

er Without Dawn is an epic family saga that unfolds against the true story of the Armenians deported from the Ottoman Empire and massacred during the First World War.

In the summer of 1915, days after the government orders the deportation of the Armenians, the charismatic Armenian journalist Vartan Balian is separated from his family and imprisoned by politicians hoping to silence him. After a daring escape, he becomes a fugitive and embarks on an odyssey across the vast empire. Not only is he running for his life; he is also searching for his wife, Maro, and their young son, Tomas. Forced into one of the deportee convoys headed for the Syrian desert, their numbers thinning every day, Maro and Tomas are saved from certain death when the Ottoman governor overseeing their deportation shelters them in the cloistered splendour of his palace, where Maro is reluctantly drawn into his harem’s web of betrayals and alliances. In the four years that will pass before they are reunited,

Agop J. Hacikyan is the author of several books and has translated and edited the works of major Armenian poets and fiction writers.

Jean-Yves Soucy is the author of several novels, short-story collections, and books of essays.