Goodbye, Antoura

It was translated into English by Simon Beugekian, and published by Stanford University Press on April 8, 2015.

Panian describes his large family and the idyllic childhood he spent in his hometown, where his grandfather owned vast orchards.

The orphanage, which was the brainchild of Ottoman Minister of Navy Djemal Pasha and was at least partly administered by the famous Turkish feminist Halide Edib Adıvar, was, in fact, another project of the Armenian genocide: its purpose was to Turkify the hundreds of Armenian children who were virtually prisoners in the institution.

Panian narrates how he and his fellow orphans often stubbornly resisted Turkification, despite appalling beatings and starvation rations.

Eventually, Panian and a few boys escaped the orphanage and sought shelter in a cave in the nearby mountains.