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Glendale Public Library
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Glendale CA 91205
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Join me tomorrow, Thursday at 7 pm, at the Glendale Public Library for
a presentation of the newly published translation of Hagop Oshagan’s
seminal work, “The Remnants, Book 1.”

The presentation will be made in English by Hagop Oshagan’s
granddaughter Taline Voskeritchian who will take a tightrope walk
along Hagop Oshagan’s private and public life and works and attempt to
unravel the enigma of this little understood literary giant.

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Hagop Oshagan’s “Remnants: The Way of the Womb”

GLENDALE, CA–On Thursday, March 12, 2015, at 7pm, the public is
invited to the presentation on the newly published translation by
G.M. Goshgarian of Hagop Oshagan’s Remnants: The Way of the Womb. Hagop
Oshagan’s granddaughter, Taline Voskeritchian, will be the presenter.

The presentation will take place at the Glendale Central Library
Auditorium, 222 East Harvard Street in Glendale. Admission is
free. The presentation will be in English. Library visitors receive 3
hours FREE parking across the street at The Market Place parking
structure with validation at the Loan Desk.

Remnants: The Way of the Womb is a literary reconstruction of the
pre-genocide world of the Armenians told through the collapse of a
family, the Nalbandians. It brings to life a lost world by
illuminating all the facets–political, social, sexual, religious and
quotidian–of that world, to the most minute detail. The novel itself
is the culmination of a series of powerful works whose theme is
Muslim-Christian, and especially Turkish-Armenian relations in the
Ottoman Empire. This volume is the first translation of a book-length
section of Oshagan’s unfinished 1500-page novel, his magnum opus,
written between 1928 and 1934 in Cyprus.

Oshagan intended the novel to include three parts (Part I: The Way of
the Womb; Part II: The Way of Blood; Part III: Hell) but was unable to
finish the third part, which was to be devoted to the extermination of
the Armenians, depicting the twenty-four hour period during which the
Armenian population of Bursa was annihilated.

Taline Voskeritchian, the granddaughter of Hagop Oshagan, was born in
Jerusalem. She teaches writing and literature at Boston
University. Voskeritchian’s prose has appeared in numerous magazines
and journals, such as American Literary Review, The Daily
Star/International, London Review of Books, MERIP/Middle East Report,
and The Nation.

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CONTACT: Elizabeth Grigorian, Armenian Outreach Coordinator at the
Glendale Library, Arts & Culture

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