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And finally, they came to our house in the evening after dinner. Three men in dark brown uniforms walked into the foyer and through the courtyard and said to my mother that if she did not hand over every gun in the house, we would be killed.”. ― Peter Balakian, Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past. 2 likes. Buy Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past: A Memoir 2 by Balakian, Peter (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. /5(89).  · It is a memoir in which Peter Balakian, growing up in a comfortable middle-class Armenian-American household, is forced to come to grips with the horrifying tragedy of the Armenian genocide in In that year a million or so Armenians were brutally tortured, robbed, raped, starved, and murdered by the Turks/5.

by Peter Balakian (Translated by) Aram Arkun (Translated by) Krikor Balakian £ £ 42 £ £ Available instantly. Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past: A Memoir. by Peter Balakian | 5 Mar out of 5 stars By Grigoris Balakian Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, His memoir, Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past, details Balakian's journey into his own connection with the genocide — one that, interestingly enough, the Armenian. www.doorway.ru: Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past () by Balakian, Peter and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.

The zaptieh knocked on Armenian doors any time of day or night, and they preferred coming at night. They came to the Kazanjians, and the Arslanians, and the Meugerditchians, and to the Hovsepians and Haroutiunians and to the Shekerlemedjians. Black Dog of Fate is set in the affluent New Jersey suburbs where Balakian -- the firstborn son of his generation -- grew up in a close, extended family. At the center of what was a quintessential American baby boom childhood lay the dark specter of a trauma his forebears had experienced -- the Ottoman Turkish government's extermination of more than a million Armenians in , the century's first genocide. It is a memoir in which Peter Balakian, growing up in a comfortable middle-class Armenian-American household, is forced to come to grips with the horrifying tragedy of the Armenian genocide in In that year a million or so Armenians were brutally tortured, robbed, raped, starved, and murdered by the Turks.