Homer+Stories

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=**//Title: Daughter of War//**= =**//Author: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch//**= =**//Year of Publication: April 2008.//**= =**//Amount of pages: 208//**= =**//(written in Canada)//**=

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=__Daughter of War__ is the story of two Armenian orphans – Marta and Kevork – who struggle to survive and to find one another during World War I in Turkey. Marta and Kevork are separated during the Armenian deportation in Turkey beginning in 1915. That was a very hard time for Armenians. Turkish people were killing them everywhere. It was a genocide. Kevork is forced to pose as an Arab shoemaker in the Arab city of Aleppo. When an American stops at his stall to ask him to make a pair of boots to travel north to Marash, Kevork eagerly volunteers to be his guide. Marta promised to find Kevork at the orphanage in Marash if they were ever separated. That was a year ago. Marta has become a concubine to a Turk. When she becomes pregnant, his first wife, Idris, decides that she cannot live with Marta’s baby. She takes Marta back to the orphanage in Marash that provides food, shelter and education for homeless street urchins orphaned by the Armenian genocide to have her baby. Here Marta finds a supportive community led by the missionary Miss Younger, who not only takes her into the orphanage but even endangers her own life to protect Marta and her newborn child. Just as Marta is about to have her child, she is reunited with her sister, Mariam, who was saved from deportation and slavery by a Turkish man, Rustem Bey. Kevork relentlessly tries to find Marta, but he cannot resist the need to help his fellow Armenian deportees by acting as a courier to transport money to needy deportation camps. He travels far and wide, contracts typhus, and loses his best friend. Eventually he learns that Marta may have survived. At the end of the book Kevork finds Marta. So, Kevork, Marta and her daughter begin their own life.=

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