The young man in the gray suit
By: Agop J. Hacikyan
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Northampton MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781566569071
Subjects: Legal stories; Family secrets; Armenians; Fiction
Description: It is the mid-1950s, four decades after the Armenian genocide. Nour Kardam, an affluent young Turkish lawyer, gets news of his fathers sudden death and soon uncovers secrets from his familys pasthis fathers involvement in the genocide, a corrupt tobacco empire, and an Armenian mother he does not remember. Caught in the entanglements of family, history, and politics, Nour travels to New York, where his attempts to find his mother and protect his fathers legacy lead him to rethink love, loyalty, and wrongdoing. In this evocative sequel to A Summer without Dawn, Agop Hacikyan imagines the rebuilding of lives in the Armenian diaspora and the possibility of reconciliation in the face of communal trauma.