num_pages: 224
description: In Passage to Ararat , which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian, a descendant of a proud people whom conquerors had for centuries tried to exterminate. But perhaps most affectingly, Arlen tells a story as large as a whole people yet as personal as the uneasy bond between a father and a son, offering a masterful account of the affirmation and pain of kinship.
language: English
title: Passage to Ararat
titlecomplete: Passage to Ararat
genres: Biography, Collections, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Travel, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 296
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: National Book Award
category: Contemporary Affairs
publisher: Ballantine Books