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All the heroes are liars in this smart, entertaining novel set at the close of World War I. Yael Weiss, an 18-year-old Jewish girl from St. Louis, falls in love at first sight with Dub Hagopian, an Armenian-American soldier. After a brief encounter at the public library, Yael changes her name, pretends she is Christian, assumes a phony age and joins up with the YMCA to follow him abroad without knowing who or where he is. In Europe, Yael meets fellow Y girl and troublemaker Brennan ("Now, shall we? It's their call to arms, this demure question"), who helps her spot Dub by chance at a Paris train station. Meanwhile, Dub has been serving as a translator for the hypocritical powers involved in the peace process, but he also secretly works for Erinyes, an underground organization fighting to avenge the Armenian genocide of 1915. With pluck and determination, Yael helps him track exiled Turkish war criminals, taking on the Armenian cause as her own. Like her heroine, Mitchell's debut is willfully charming, alternately impudent and intense ("Love. From the French oeuf. Oeuf meaning egg. As in egg handgrenaten"). Resisting the temptation to write an "issue" book, Mitchell manages to capture a horrendous chapter in world history through exhaustive research while allowing a full spectrum of humor and pathos to flesh out the picture.
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Mitchell's novel is based on her friend's great-aunt's letters describing her work as a YMCA volunteer in France in 1919, where and when she met an Armenian who had lost his family. It is the story of a Jewish girl from St. Louis and an Armenian American soldier at the end of World War I. The protagonist is 18-year-old Yael Weiss, who passes herself off as Yale White, a 25-year-old Methodist, so she can work at the YMCA soldiers' canteen in Paris. The soldier she follows to France is the son of immigrants living in Providence, Rhode Island. He is a member of Erinyes, an underground organization devoted to avenging the massacres of Armenians in 1915. But it is the succinct passages scattered throughout the book that make it exceptional. For instance, "Some Jews took the names of their tribes. Cohen, Levi. Wealthy Jews purchased beautiful names. Lillenfeld (field of lilies). Poor Jews had to accept humiliating names. Gross (fat)." This eloquent first novel encompasses the full spectrum of joy and torment that is the human condition. George Cohen
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4.0étoiles sur 5 "Armenians don't kneel.", Jui 17 2004
Par Mary Whipple (New England) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Last Day of the War: A Novel (Hardcover)
Between 1894 and 1915, almost a million Armenians were killed in a series of massacres by the Turks. Here author Mitchell seizes on the fact that many Armenian-Americans who fought in Europe during World War I were committed at the same time to finding and punishing the leaders of these massacres, many of whom had escaped to Europe. One of these soldiers is Doubleday (Dub) Hagopian, an American who goes to war in Europe and stays on to work as a translator during the Paris Peace Conference. He is part of a secret society of Armenians dedicated to capturing three leaders of the massacres who have escaped to Germany, along with a former police chief, now in Paris, who locked the doors of an Armenian church, then set it afire, killing scores of worshipping families.

Yale White, formerly Yael Weiss, an adventurous eighteen-year-old from St. Louis, lies about her age and her religion to follow Dub to Europe, where she works as a "canteen lady" for the YMCA. She and her unconventional best friend, Mary "Brennan" White, presage the "flapper" attitudes that will develop after the war, while Dub and Raffi Soghokian, an acquaintance from Providence, serve the serious cause of Erinyes, a secret organization seeking to avenge the massacres. As the story develops, the author presents flashbacks which reveal the terrible history of the Armenians, not in generic terms, but as it affects individuals in the novel, a history that has remained relatively unknown to westerners. As Yale's love for Dub grows, she becomes a passionate and active supporter of his cause.

The novel depends to a great extent on coincidences to resolve the action, with the right people being in the right places at the right times, and the story occasionally wanders. There is little foreshadowing to provide unity, and while some of the characters begin to question some of their initial decisions, they do not change very much. The author steps out of "character" to teach the reader history-the basics of how World War I got started, along with details of the peace treaties at the end of World War I, which promised sovereignty to the Armenian people. Overall, however, the novel is fast-paced and exciting and pays long-overdue attention to the Armenian people, their history, and culture, a good debut novel from an author whose story reaches beyond pure plot. Mary Whipple

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