Ravens before Noah

This novel is set in the Armenian mountains sometime in 1915-1960. An old man and a new born baby boy escape from the Hamidian massacres in Turkey in 1894 and hide themselves in the ruins of a demolished and abandoned village. The village soon becomes a shelter for many others who flee from problems with the law their families or their past lives. The villagers survive in this secret shelter cut off from the rest of the world by selling or bartering their agricultural products in the villages beneath the mountain.Years pass by and the child saved by the old man grows into a young man Harout. He falls for a beautiful girl who arrived in the village after being tortured by Turkish soldiers. She is pregnant and the old women of the village want to kill the twin baby girls as soon as they are born to wash away the shame...This book was published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia under the Armenian Literature in Translation ProgramTranslated from the Armenian by Nazareth SeferianProofread by Emma LockleyPublishers Maxim Hodak & Max Mendor