Arbol Armenio, El

These pages explain the reasons for the Armenian genocide of 1915. Although Turkey denies it, in 2000, the French Parliament recognized it, and in 2016 made its denial a fined crime. Emmanuel Macron declared April 24 as Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day in France. Also recognized by U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, Pope Francis called it "the first genocide of the 20th century." There is a small Christian country located in the South Caucasus, wedged between huge Muslim nations (Turkey, Iran and Azerbaijan), whose people have suffered like few others the most tragic and unfortunate vicissitudes of modern history. Much has been said about the Jewish Holocaust perpetrated during World War II, but little is known about the ruthless extermination of the Armenians by the Turks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which served as an example for Hitler. This is a moving historical novel that, through the vicissitudes of the Nazarian-Nakhoudian family, intertwines the lives of the Armenian victims with the Turkish perpetrators. But, above all, it is a denunciation of how a state becomes genocidal of its own citizens simply because they are different.