Aram Arkun
With a hundred years now having passed after the start of
the Armenian Genocide, the immediacy of the event has most obviously
faded away. The generation of survivors of the Genocide is nearly all
gone now from the earth, and even their children are elderly.
Nonetheless, the story of the Genocide and the effect it has had on
people’s lives still seems to resonate powerfully, and it seems the
third generation, the grandchildren of survivors – the last generation
in direct contact with these eyewitnesses, is now carrying the torch.
The number of new books on the Genocide and its consequences which have
been published over the past few years attests to this. Dawn Anahid
MacKeen’s The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey (Boston, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) is one of the most recent ones.
