"DRAINING THE SEA" A NOVEL BY MICHELINE AHARONIAN MARCOM PUBLISHED

Noyan Tapan
April 8, 2008

PARIS, APRIL 8, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. The "Draning the Sea"
novel by Micheline Aharonian, which is an evocation of the Guatemalan
genocide of the 1980s and its echoes of the Armenian genocide
in the early years of the 20th century, has been published. It is
unsurprising that Micheline Aharonian Marcom, whose first two novels,
"Three Apples Fell From Heaven" and "The Daydreaming Boy," explore the
massacre of Armenians nearly a century ago, has turned her attention
to Guatemala. The title of her new novel evokes the policy toward
Guatemala’s Maya population during the most gruesome years of that
country’s 36-year internal conflict. About 200,000 Guatemalans,
mostly Maya, were killed in those years.