The Burning Heart of the World

AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLER, ZABELLE - AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEWED, ALL THE LIGHT THERE WAS - 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, The Burning Heart of the World is a sweeping saga that takes readers on an epic journey from the mountains of Cilicia to contemporary New York City.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 04/01/2025
ISBN: 9781636281933
Pages: 216

Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/2025 pg. 65