A story about passionate love, unspeakable fears, incredible perseverance and hidden stories that haunt a family - brings a new novel published by New Book, Orhan's Legacy by the young author Alin Ohanesian.
Moving through time, from the last years of the Ottoman Empire to the end of the XNUMXth century, Orhan's legacy provides a very unbiased picture of the suffering of the Armenian people, and points to possible understanding, even forgiveness.
Orhan's legacy is a contemporary lesson on the mutual understanding of the Turkish and Armenian people, and at the same time a strong testimony of human suffering on both sides. Alin brings a story from her own family's past, because her grandmother survived the genocide against the Jews.
When Orhan's brilliant and eccentric grandfather, who built a carpet-making dynasty, is found dead in a paint vat, Orhan inherits a decades-old business. But the grandfather's will raises more questions than it offers answers.
Kemal left the homestead of a stranger who is thousands of kilometers away, to an elderly woman in a nursing home in Los Angeles. Her existence and the secrecy surrounding her past only deepen the mystery of why Orhan's grandfather would leave their home to this woman and not to his own family.
Determined to right the wrong, Orhan boards a plane to Los Angeles. There, in the course of numerous encounters, he will discover the story that Seda so closely guards - a story that, if told, has the power to undo the legacy on which Orhan's family was built, a story that could unravel Orhan's future.
Alin Ohanesian was born in Kuwait, has lived in California since she was three years old, and is the winner of numerous awards for short literary forms. The novel Orhan's Legacy first appeared in the USA on April 7, and has been at the top of the world charts ever since. From today, lovers of the written word can find it in all City bookstores or order it by mail site, in the New Book edition.
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