Three Apples Fell From Heaven

An elegant memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocidefrom the award-winning author of The Brick House. A New York Times Notable Book that imagines the lives of several sufferers of the twentieth centurys first genocide. Anaguil an Armenian girl taken in by Turkish neighbors after the death of her parents who now views the remains of her world through a Muslim veil; Sargis a poet hidden away in his mothers attic dressed in womens clothing and steadily going mad; Lucine a servant and lover of the American consul; Maritsa a rage-filled Muslim wife who becomes a whore; and Dickran an infant left behind under a tree on the long exodus from an Armenian village who reaches with tiny hands to touch the stars and dies with his name unrecorded. Through the lives depicted in Three Apples Fell From Heaven we witness the vanishing of a people. Together the stories of these lives form a narrative mosaicfaceted complex richly textured a devastating tableau.