Micheline Aharonian Marcom Knihy

"Emilio thinks he is living the American Dream: his parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, sacrifice daily to make sure of it. And his life seems relatively normal until he turns sixteen. Like most teenagers, Emilio is determined to get his driver's license-however, his mother dissuades him from doing so. When Emilio asks why, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented. Emilio adjusts to his new normal. Under the Dreamers' Act, he attends Berkley. He falls in love. Everything seems fine...until Emilio gets into a car accident and-without a driver's license or any documentation-the policeman on the scene reports him to Immigration Services. Emilio is deported to Guatemala. But he is determined to get back to California, the only home he has ever known. It is an epic journey that takes him through the cities, jungles, and deserts of South America, towards thieves and corrupt law enforcement but also kind strangers and new friends. Drawing from interviews with Dreamers, and told in lyrical prose, Micheline Marcom weaves a heart-pounding and heartbreaking tale of adventure. This is a timely novel that asks us what we have in common, across experiences and borders, and what truly makes us American"--

small pieces is a collaboration between novelist, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, and writer and visual artist Fowzia Karimi, pairing Marcom's short stories, or "miniatures" as Marcom calls them--prose pieces of one page or less--with watercolors done by Karimi. The work is a conversation between two artists in text and image, side by side.

Das stille Weiß eines klaren Wintertages, der rote Saft der Maulbeeren, die Schwärze anatolischer Nächte – Micheline Aharonian Marcom beschwört in ihrem Werk Bilder einer Welt herauf, die blutig unterging und dennoch in der Erinnerung lebendig bleibt. Die amerikanische Autorin gehört zu den Armeniern, die seit dem Völkermord unter türkischer Herrschaft verstreut leben. Das Wissen um die grausamen Ereignisse von 1915-1917, bei denen über eine Million Armenier starben, prägt ihre Identität. Mit ihrem Roman will Marcom die Gesichter und das Leben der Gequälten bewahren und ihrem Schicksal ein Denkmal setzen. Da ist der junge Sagris, der in Frauenkleidern gegen den Tod seiner Seele anschreibt; das Mädchen Anaguil, das hinter seinem Schleier das Schreckliche sieht und um sein Leben kämpft; und Mardiros, der, zu Tode gefoltert, auf die Auferstehung wartet. In sparsamer Prosa verbindet Marcom erschütternde Grausamkeit mit tröstlicher Fantasie. Unsagbares wird erzählbar, das Unvorstellbare wird unvergesslich. Erzählerische Distanz und tiefe Betroffenheit finden ein zartes Gleichgewicht, sodass der Leser Sagris, Mardiros oder Anaguil nicht vergisst. „Ein wunderschöner Roman, der einem das Herz bricht!“ Publishers Weekly. „Ein brillanter Roman!“ The New York Times.

A woman s sexual awakening is a tragedy when the woman is married to someone other than the man who awakens her. But until then, her marriage, now doomed, was a sleepwalker s tragedy. This novel will shock and offend some readers. Unapologetically explicit in its language, extreme in some of the acts it catalogues, it makes no pretense of submission to middle-class decency, let alone to expectations of happy endings. All three people in this love triangle are flawed, damaged, human. Things fall apart, and the resolution is unclear. Why does she do it? Why should we read it? The answer is one word: Ecstasy. Micheline Aharonian Marcom has a genius for language that is not only beautiful in and of itself, but also engages the heart. Lusher than Marguerite Duras, more tender and erotic than Cormac McCarthy, but nearly as dark, this is a narrative masterpiece."