Rise The Euphrates 20th Anniversary Edition With An Introduction By The Author [Paperback]

An international bestseller, now available in this twentieth-anniversary revised edition, Rise the Euphrates reaches back to 1915, when nine-year-old Casard witnesses the massacre of her family during the Armenian genocide. Casard emigrates to America to put the unspeakable past behind her; yet as the years pass and her only daughter, Araxie, marries outside the clan, making her husband and their children odaroutsidersthe rift between mother and daughter threatens once again to tear the family apart. It falls to Seta, the novels lyrical narrator and Casards granddaughter, to alter her familys legacy. The daughter assumes what is unfinished in her mothers life, Seta learns. Caught between the generations, and between the American and Armenian cultures in her Connecticut town, Seta confronts the fiercest division: the one within herself. The wisdom she gains frees the next generation in Carol Edgarians stunningly original and groundbreaking novel.

PRAISE FOR RISE THE EUPHRATES

This is a book whose generosity of spirit, intelligence, humanity and finally ambition are what literature ought to be and rarely is today  daring, heartbreaking and affirmative, giving order and sense to our random lives. Washington Post Book World

Edgarians sumptuous writing and uncommon wisdom about the human spirit and its maiming seep into a readers heart, refusing to leave. This is a stunning debut, a book that will doubtless haunt its readers as it beguiles them. The Miami Herald

...Vivid, chilling...RISE THE EUPHRATES' richly drawn characters and the haunted voice of the narrator will long remain in readers' memories. Robert Stone

How often do you get to read a book that captures you so entirely and deeply that it controls your days, measures them out and defines them by how long it will be before you can get to your next night's reading? RISE THE EUPHRATES is on of these rarelS¦