Narine Abgaryan. "To Go on Living." A book talk and bilingual reading, followed by a conversation with the author and translator Margarit Ordukhanyan.
Set in an Armenian mountain village immediately after the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, Abgaryan's To Go On Living traces the interconnected lives of villagers tending to their everyday tasks, engaging in quotidian squabbles, and celebrating small joys against a breathtaking landscape. Yet the setting, suspended in time and space, belies […]