Abril Bookstore
The Center for Armenian Remembrance
Friends of UCLA Armenian Language and Culture Studies
cordially invite you to

An Evening with ANTONIA ARSLAN
Author of SKYLARK FARM

Book review by ATINA HARTUNIAN, Freelance Writer and Literary Activist

Selected clips from The Lark Farm with film commentary by SIOBHAN NASH-MARSHALL, Professor and Mary T. Clark Chair of Christian Philosophy at Manhattanville College

FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011 – 7:30 PM
GLENDALE CENTRAL LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
222 E. HARVARD ST., GLENDALE, CA 91205

Antonia Arslan’s critically acclaimed novel, Skylark Farm is a beautiful, wrenching debut novel chronicling the life of a family struggling for survival during the Armenian Genocide in Turkey in 1915. It has won 22 awards including the P.E.N. Club International Award, and has been translated into 20 languages. It was adapted to the screen in 2007 by the Taviani brothers with, “The Lark Farm,” starring Paz Vega (“Spanglish”). Copies of the newly released DVD as well as three versions of the book – English, Western Armenian, and Eastern Armenian – will be available.

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