The Gendarme

To most people, Emmett Conn is a confused old World War I veteran, fading in and out of senility. But in his mind, Emmett is haunted by events he'd long forgotten. In his dreams, he's a gendarme, a soldier marching Armenians out of Turkey. He commits unspeakable acts. Yet he feels compelled to spare one remarkable woman: Araxie, the girl with the piercing eyes-one green, one blue.

As the past and present bleed together in The Gendarme, Emmett Conn sets out on one final journey to find Araxie and beg forgiveness, before it's too late. With uncompromising vision and boundless compassion, Mark Mustian has written a transcendent meditation on the power of memory-and the dangers of forgetting who we are and have been.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley / Nal
Published: 09/06/2011
ISBN: 9780425242964
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.00w x 1.00d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 09/25/2011 pg. 32