Susanna Harutyunyan’s novel Ravens Before Noah has been published by Edition Europastraße of Akademische Verlagsbuchhandlung Friedrich Mauke. The book has already been published in English and Serbian. Arabic edition is coming soon, while the French will be published in 2024. 

About the author

Susanna Harutyunyan is one of the most acclaimed women writers in Armenia with a bibliography of 8 published books and numerous publications in short story anthologies. In 2016 she got Armenia’s highest literary awards – the Presidential Prize for Literature for her newly published novel Ravens Before Noah. To learn more about the writer, please visit her page.

About the book

Ravens before Noah is story of survival and life in isolation and freedom of choice. The people who have escaped from the Armenian Genocide in Turkey establish a village in the mountains, which is under no governmental rule. More people escape and join the village from the Soviet repressions. They live their isolated life, develop their own traditions and try to survive in their own ways. The ideas of good and evil are quite different for them, based mainly on their life experience and fear for their life. The magical  realism style of the writer and the details of the rural life give a picturesque background for the tragic events that are developing in the story. Births and deaths, love and hate, care and neglect towards others.