The Burning Heart of the World

<p><strong>AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLER </strong><strong><em>ZABELLE</em></strong><strong> • AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEWED </strong><strong><em>ALL THE LIGHT THERE WAS</em></strong></p><p><strong>Nancy Kricorian named a creative activist on the Wallpaper* USA 400 list</strong></p><p><strong>In vivid poetic prose Nancy Kricorian’s </strong><strong><em>The Burning Heart of the World</em></strong><strong> tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before during and after the Lebanese Civil War.</strong></p><p><strong>“You won’t be able to put this book down.—Marie Myung-Ok Lee author of The Evening Hero • “vivid reverberating life.”—Aram Saroyan author of Still Night in L.A.</strong></p><p><strong>Returning to the fabular tone of </strong><strong><em>Zabelle</em></strong><strong> her popular first novel Kricorian</strong> 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 <strong><em>The Burning Heart of the World</em></strong> is a sweeping saga that takes readers on an epic journey from the mountains of Cilicia to contemporary New York City.</p>