Efronia
By Stina Katchadourian
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
The memoir of Efronia Katchadourian, born in 1894 to an Armenian Christian family in the Ottoman Empire, who in her late eighties finally wrote down the long-secret story of her youthful love for a Persian Muslim during the years of the Armenian genocide. Her daughter-in-law Stina Katchadourian introduces the memoir and weaves around it the history, culture and family background of her indomitable mother-in-law's turbulent world.