Two books I read many years ago which continue to haunt me: Rise the Euphrates by Carol Edgarian and Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje. The former - the story of the 1915 massacre of Armenians, seen through the eyes of a young girl called Seta growing up in Connecticut - begins with the most beautifully eloquent line: “These are the things that were not lost“.





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