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    To Go On Living

    To Go On Living

    Stories


    Translated by Margarit Ordukhanyan, Zara Torlone

    5 Stars on Goodreads

    Coming in April 2025: Set in rural Armenia in the aftermath of war, Narine Abgaryan’s heartwarming short stories show people finding hope and purpose again.


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    About The Book

    Set in an Armenian mountain village immediately after the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, these thirty-one linked short stories trace 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 unspeakable tragedy: every character contends with an unbearable burden of loss. The war rages largely off the book’s pages, appearing only in fragmented flashbacks. Abgaryan’s stories focus on how, in the war’s aftermath, the survivors work, as individuals and as a community, to find a way forward. Written in Abgaryan’s signature style that weaves elements of Armenian folk tradition into her prose, these stories of community, courage, and resilience celebrate human life, where humor and love and hope prevail in unthinkable circumstances.

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    Table of Contents

    • In Place of a Preface: Zanazan
    • Merelots
    • Tights
    • Bundle
    • Baghardj
    • Loneliness
    • To Live
    • Baklava
    • Gulpa
    • Rug
    • Valley
    • Waiting
    • Summer
    • Prayer
    • Homecoming
    • Toast
    • Khachkar
    • Thunderstorm
    • Hunger
    • Lace
    • Herd
    • Stroll
    • Boots
    • Choice
    • The Heart
    • Silence
    • Laughter
    • Immortelle
    • Guilt
    • Salvation
    • Fogs
    • In Lieu of an Epilogue