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Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
September 2010
On Sale: September 2, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 0399156348
EAN: 9780399156342
Hardcover
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What would you do if the love of your life, and all your
memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such
shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered... Emmett Conn is an old man, near the end of his life. A World
War I veteran, he's been affected by memory loss since being
injured during the war. To those around him, he's simply a
confused man, fading in and out of senility. But what they
don't know is that Emmett has been beset by memories, of
events he and others have denied or purposely forgotten. In Emmett's dreams he's a gendarme, escorting Armenians from
Turkey. A young woman among them, Araxie, captivates and
enthralls him. But then the trek ends, the war separates
them. He is injured. Seven decades later, as his grasp on
the boundaries between past and present begins to break
down, Emmett sets out on a final journey, to find Araxie and
beg her forgiveness. Mark Mustian has written a remarkable novel about the power
of memory-and the ability of people, individually and
collectively, to forget. Depicting how love can transcend
nationalities, politics, and religion, how racism creates
divisions where none truly exist, and how the human spirit
fights to survive even in the face of hopelessness, The
Gendarme is a transcendent novel.
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