Mashtots Press (Publisher)
1982 London 155 pages
Size: 5 3/4" x 8 1/2"
Language(s): English
Additional Artists
Mischa Kudian (Editor, Translator)
This is a gripping and intriguing novel, which shocked some of its readers in the 1920's. It is the story of its hero, Bedros a young Armenian photographer in Paris, who becomes enmeshed in an amorous involvement, ending in a dramatic way. At the same time, this work reveals the inevitable fate of both the hero and some of his Armenian friends, doomed to be assimilated before long, and sounds a warning alarm in the diaspora.
Shahnour is considered to be one of the foremost Armenian writers of this century: His Retreat Without Song, which created a sensation among Armenians everywhere on its first publication in 1929, is as fresh today as it was more than fifty years ago.