The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
This stirring, poignant novel, based on real historical events that made of actual people true heroes, unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their Christian subjects. Unable to deny his birthright or his people, one man, Gabriel Bagradian—born an Armenian, educated in Paris, married to a...
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This stirring, poignant novel, based on real historical events that made of actual people true heroes, unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their Christian subjects. Unable to deny his birthright or his people, one man, Gabriel Bagradian—born an Armenian, educated in Paris, married to a Frenchwoman, and an officer doing his duty as a Turkish subject in the Ottoman army—will strive to resist death at the hands of his blood enemy by leading 5,000 Armenian villagers to the top of Musa Dagh, “the mountain of Moses.” There, for forty days, in the face of almost certain death, they will suffer the siege of a Turkish army hell-bent on genocide. A passionate warning against the dangers of racism and scapegoating, and prefiguring the ethnic horrors of World War II, this important novel from the early 1930s remains the only significant treatment, in fiction or nonfiction, of the first genocide in the twentieth century’s long series of inhumanities. It also continues to be today what the New York Times deemed it in 1933—“a true and thrilling novel ... a story which must rouse the emotions of all human beings.” “Musa Dagh gives us a lasting sense of participation in a stirring episode of history.... Magnificent.”—The New York Times Book Review “A novel full of the breath, the flesh and blood and bone and spirit of life.”—Saturday Review
IntroductionixBook 1Coming Events1.Teskere32.Konak--Hamam--Selamlik223.The Notables of Yoghonoluk414.The First Incident655.Interlude of the Gods1236.The Great Assembly1527.The Funeral of the Bells236Book 2The Struggle of the Weak1.Life on the Mountain2952.The Exploits of the Boys3383.The Procession of Fire3954.Sato's Ways483Book 3Disaster, Rescue, the End1.Interlude of the Gods5292.Stephan Sets Out and Returns5663.Pain6124.Decline and Temptation6375.The Altar Flame6796.The Script in the Fog7547.To the Inexplicable in Us and Above Us!811List of Characters819Glossary of Armenian and Turkish Terms821
