Scott Neuffer
Zabel Yessayan, In the Ruins: The 1909 Massacres of Armenians in Adana, Turkey, translated by G. M. Goshgarian, AIWA Press.
This unsparing, unflinching, and darkly poetic account of the
1909 massacre of 30,000 Armenians in Adana, Turkey, makes Joseph
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness seem like leisure reading. That’s
because Zabel Yessayan, one of the most important Armenian woman writers
of the modern era, is relentless in capturing every horrid detail of
genocide: every burnt building, every blood-streaked field, and every
broken and whimpering face of those who survived the massacre.
