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'Could it be possible so much killing took place here? No stench of corpses, no evidence of spilled blood. Mass graves shouldn't be this beautiful. On this serene, cloud-curdled day, the atrocities seem a fabrication, tales told to frighten children.

ANOUSH PAKRADOUNIAN steps onto the tarmac and feels Levantine heat on her cheeks like a caress. She hasn't been back to Beirut since she was sixteen. Now, at twenty-nine, she thinks she knows where she's going. She thinks she knows who is right and who is wrong. Yet nothing about her family's past, the history of her ancestors or her childhood in this city is black and white. There's her father, killer and killed. He shot children, babies. He terrorised women in Palestinian camps. When he died chained to a wall, he still thought himself a hero. Her Armenian grandmother. Survivor of genocide. Raped, robbed, left for dead. Sold to a Turk in the desert when she was fifteen. Her grandfather, a militiaman famous for his hatred of Muslims. And in dreams, in the space between words - bone, ash, sky - stories of a lake witness to atrocity, to a loss she can't yet explain.' (Source: Author's website)

Notes

  • Dedication: This story is for the survivors and those who haven't lived to tell the tale.

    Also for my sister, Annette Livas, 1965-2010

  • Epigraph: Everything is in process of creation and destruction.

    There is no here or hereafter;

    everything is a single moment.

    -Bedreddin, 15th-century Islamic mystic.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • South Yarra, South Yarra - Glen Iris area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Hardie Grant Books , 2013 .
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      Extent: 480p.
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      • Publication date: 01 May 2013
      ISBN: 9781742705859, 1742705855

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Works about this Work

Review : Bone Ash Sky Angus Dalton , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , August 2013; (p. 34)

— Review of Bone Ash Sky Katerina Cosgrove , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] Bruce McMahon , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6-7 July 2013; (p. 20)

— Review of Bone Ash Sky Katerina Cosgrove , 2013 single work novel
Unravelling the Complex Thread of Love and Conflict Claire Scobie , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 Jume 2013; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Bone Ash Sky Katerina Cosgrove , 2013 single work novel
Harrowing Stories From a Broken World Peter Pierce , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 May 2013; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Bone Ash Sky Katerina Cosgrove , 2013 single work novel
World of Words Jane Sullivan , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 December 2012; (p. 22) The Canberra Times , 29 December 2012; (p. 15-16) The Saturday Age , 29 December 2012; (p. 22-23)
Jane Sullivan nominates the best Australian and overseas published books for 2013.
Harrowing Stories From a Broken World Peter Pierce , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 May 2013; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Bone Ash Sky Katerina Cosgrove , 2013 single work novel
Unravelling the Complex Thread of Love and Conflict Claire Scobie , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 Jume 2013; (p. 26-27)

— Review of Bone Ash Sky Katerina Cosgrove , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] Bruce McMahon , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6-7 July 2013; (p. 20)

— Review of Bone Ash Sky Katerina Cosgrove , 2013 single work novel
Review : Bone Ash Sky Angus Dalton , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , August 2013; (p. 34)

— Review of Bone Ash Sky Katerina Cosgrove , 2013 single work novel
World of Words Jane Sullivan , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 December 2012; (p. 22) The Canberra Times , 29 December 2012; (p. 15-16) The Saturday Age , 29 December 2012; (p. 22-23)
Jane Sullivan nominates the best Australian and overseas published books for 2013.
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