TWO BOOKS ON ARMENIAN THEMES AT ONCE PUBLISHED IN FRANCE

YEREVAN, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Two works on
Armenian themes, Louis Carzou’s "The Eighth Hill" ("La Huitieme
Colline") novel and Laurence Ritter’s "Long Way of Armenians, History
and Present of Armenian Diaspora" ("La Longue Marche des Armeniens,
Histoire et Devenir d’une Diapors") research on Armenian themes, were
at once published in France. Armenian presentation of the books took
place on March 15 at the Caucasus Media Institute.

The "Eighth Hill" novel is the first fiction work of French Armenian
journalist, LCI editor-in-chief Louis Carzou. The author chose a
young, progressive Turk journalist as the main hero of the novel. The
Turk journalist accidentally got to know that his ancestors became
apostate after the Armenian Genocide. In the author’s words, he made
just this individual conflict and contradictory situation a mean to
again touch upon the Armenian Genocide issue. L. Carzou is sure that
every Turkish family has for years carried the consequence of the
Armenian Genocide as a stigma.

Sociologist Laurence Ritter living in Armenia mentioned that the "Long
Way of Armenians, History and Present of Armenian Diapora" research is
the result of his 5-year work. The research consists of three
parts. In the first part the author involved his researches about
Diasporan Armenians carried out in different colonies, their life way,
similarities and differences. The author’s researches about modern
Armenia and about what meaning it has for Diasporan Armenians were
involved in the second part of the book.

"The circumstance was especially important for me that the Armenian
people, being the victim of the genocide, today seems to already leave
the victim’s status, demanding from the international community to
respect its ancestors’ memory," Mr. Laurence emphasized.