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My Name Is Revenge

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My Name Is Revenge Synopsis

My Name Is Revenge is in two parts. There is a novella, and an essay reflecting on the historic events that inspired that novella, and meditating also on how history can inform fiction. In the essay the writer says she hopes everything she writes will ';arouse curiosity'. Both the novella and the essay do just that, and also much, much more. Both pieces are informed by a passion to express the haunting of almost unimaginable historical crimes, and the tragic shapes that vengeance for those crimes can take.';The novella is a powerful exploration of the long-term, far-flung effects of the horrors of the genocide of the Armenian people by the Ottoman government during World War One. The narrative is set in Sydney in 1980, and it dramatizes the assassination of the Turkish Consul by the grandsons of a victim of the 1914 genocide. The author's grandfather saw ';his entire family killed while he hid in the upper branches of a tree'.';The essay is a compelling account of how the author, great-grand-child of victims of the genocide, has worked with the bitter historical events which began on the day before the landing of the Australian troops at Gallipoli. This planned co-incidence of horrors affords the whole manuscript an urgency for Australian readers in particular. To quote from the text, this is ';an echo of terror across six decades'. And ';revenge' is the very meaning of the main character's name.Kalagian Blunt expertly and compassionately examines the nature of truth and its representation via the conjunction of fiction and essay.- CARMEL BIRD

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ISBN: 9781925052428
Publication date: 3rd October 2018
Author: Blunt, Ashley Kalagian
Publisher: Spineless Wonders Publishing Pty Ltd
Format: Ebook (Epub)