The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian Paperback Book 9781636281933

AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLER ZABELLE ampbull AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEWED ALL THE LIGHT THERE WAS ampbull In vivid poetic prose Nancy Kricorianamprsquos The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before during and after the Lebanese Civil War ampldquoYou wonamprsquot be able to put this book downquotampmdashMarie MyungOk Lee author of The Evening Hero ampbull ampldquovivid reverberating lifeamprdquoampmdashAram Saroyan author of Still Night in LA Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle her popular first novel Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile Leavened with humor and imbued with the timelessness of a folktale The Burning Heart of the World is a sweeping saga that takes readers on an epic journey from the mountains of Cilicia to contemporary New York City