A  new novel by ARI Literary and Talent Agency’s writer Byurakn Ishkhanyan entitled Tote Bag has been published by Actual Art Publishing House. 

Siranush is a scientist from Armenia, who studied and worked in Germany, then moved to Denmark to work as an associate professor at a university. Her communication is limited to her childhood friend Aram and his wife who also live in Aarhus and Zehra, a feminist scientist with Turkish roots. Soon COVID-19 hits with the lockdown and impossibility to live a social life. Amid COVID, when the limitations are slightly off, and life seems to get back to normal, Azerbaijan attacks Armenian inhabited Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), an unrecognized state and a subject of 30 year long conflict between these countries. Siranush dives fully into her Armenian identity and puts all her efforts into building awareness about the situation. 

 The novel is about migration and impossibility of full integration into a new society and the need to revisit and reimagine your identity in a new environment.