AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLER,
ZABELLE
• AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEWED,
ALL THE LIGHT THERE WAS
Nancy Kricorian named a creative activist on the Wallpaper* USA 400 list
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.
“You won’t be able to put this book down."—Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of The Evening Hero • “vivid, reverberating life.”—Aram Saroyan, author of Still Night in L.A.
Returning to the fabular tone of
Zabelle
, her popular first novel, Kricorian
conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile. Leavened with humor and imbued with the timelessness of a folktale,
is a sweeping saga that takes readers on an epic journey from the mountains of Cilicia to contemporary New York City.