The Armenian Genocide Featured in Works of Fiction

[Ya Sam]

"The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

     Nearly 70 years after it appeared in English, it is easy to take for 
granted Franz Werfel’s masterpiece.  Filled with vivid characters and 
unforgettable scenes, and executed with a Tolstoyan flair on a huge canvas, 
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is still unquestionably the most famous novel 
written about Armenians, and one of the best as well and still in print 
after almost 70 years.

     A best-seller in the 1930s and widely read down to this day, Werfel’s 
novel has probably singlehandedly informed more people about the Armenian 
Genocide than any other source.  No less a figure than Vahakn Dadrian has 
said that the novel inspired him to do research on the Armenian Genocide.

     Readers coming to The Forty Days for the first time may be surprised at 
how well the book has aged.  It is as fresh and as powerful now as it was in 
the 1930s, and no less relevant.  New generations will continue to find in 
the book what its first readers found: an extraordinary story of great power 
written with style and grace. [T195p, $14.95 ($12.95)] "

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