{"product_id":"the-candidate-9780815634683","title":"The Candidate","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Candidate is one of the most masterful, psychologically penetrating novels in Armenian diaspora literature. Published in 1967 at a time of political awakening among the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide, the novel explores themes of trauma, forgiveness, reconciliation, friendship, and sacrifice, and examines the relationship between victim and perpetrator. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book opens in 1927 in Paris after Minas has found his friend Vahakn's body on the floor of the apartment they share. In a fragmentary way, Minas tells of his meeting Vahakn in the caf s of the Latin Quarter; the friendship that joins them; their conversations with Ziya, a Turkish student in Paris; Vahakn's murder of Ziya; and Vahakn's suicide. At the core of the novel is the note Vahakn leaves Minas to explain the enigma of Ziya's murder and his own suicide. The letter recounts Vahakn's and his mother's deportation from their village in the Ottoman Empire; his mother's death and Vahakn's adoption by a Turkish woman, Fatma, who rapes and abuses him; his feelings of alienation and self-estrangement in France; and his inability to adapt to life after trauma. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKnown for his innovation of the Western Armenian novel, Vorpouni challenges the narrative elements of the conventional novel by playing with subjectivity and linearity. His melding of contemporary French literary and intellectual currents produces a literary and cultural hybrid unique in Western Armenian literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zareh Vorpouni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.11h x 6.06w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815634683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZareh Vorpouni (1902-1980) was a prominent Armenian writer. He is the author of numerous\u003cbr\u003enovels and short story collections, including The Persecuted, a cycle of four novels published\u003cbr\u003ebetween 1929 and 1974: \u003ci\u003eThe Attempt, The Candidate, Asphalt\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Regular Day\u003c\/i\u003e. This is the first of his novels to be translated into English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJennifer Manoukian is a translator of Western Armenian literature, most recently T\u003ci\u003ehe Gardens\u003cbr\u003eof Silihdar \u003c\/i\u003eby Zabel Yessayan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIshkhan Jinbashian is the translator of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003ePassage through Hell \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Fatal Night\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40191907692659,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_530d71e8-2420-4aaf-9b53-47c70df6a540.jpg?v=1655906974","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-candidate-9780815634683","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}