MISAK: AN ARMENIAN LIFE

By Karen Jeppe. Translated, Edited, and Introduced by Jonas Kauffeldt.

Misak: An Armenian Life is Karen Jeppe's touching and heartfelt account of her adopted son's experiences from childhood to early adulthood. Set in the city of Urfa and the surrounding areas of the eastern Ottoman Empire, the narrative is both biography and autobiography, with Jeppe weaving he own story into the account. This joint tale spans the years from the 1890s to the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War.

Gomidas Institute (2015)