Nancy Kricorian

• Mar-1999
• / General Fiction
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An Armenian immigrant’s journey from the author of Dreams of Bread and Fire. “Haunting and convincing . . . There’s a fairy-tale quality to the prose” (Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker).   Zabelle begins in a suburb of Bo...

• Apr-2004
• / Literary
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“By turns funny, tragic, astute, and enlightening, [Dreams of Bread and Fire] is an engrossing coming-of-age tale.” -- Library Journal, starred review   Half Jewish, half Armenian Ani is desperately in love with a New England boy with a tru...

• Mar-2013
• / Historical
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All the Light There Was is the story of an Armenian family’s struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Paris in the 1940s -- a lyrical, finely wrought tale of loyalty, love, and the many faces of resistance. On the day the Nazis march down the ...

• Apr-2025
• / General Fiction
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In vivid, poetic prose, Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War. Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, her popular first novel, Kricorian conj...