Product Description: This is the story of a Finnish family during World War II, combining a gripping correspondence between the author's parents, who were separated by the war, with the interspersed memories of the author, who was their youngest child...read more

A trilogy comprising 'Snow Leopard' (1987), 'The Parks' (1992), and 'After Spending a Night Among Horses' (1997), coupled with a cycle of poems, 'Minerals.' This poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the threatened natural world.

Product Description: Efronia Katchadourian was born in 1894 to a Christian Armenian family living in the Ottoman Empire. In her late eighties, she finally wrote the long-secret story of her ill-fated youthful love for a Persian Moslem during the era of the Armenian genocide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)