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The Crimson Field
Book Details
Publisher: Pearlida Publishing; 1st Edition
Published Date: September 5, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0977187349
ISBN-13: 978-0977187348
Hardcover: 568 pages
Book Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 2 inches
Amazon.com Book Description
A tour-de-force, Rosie Malek-Yonan's "The Crimson Field" is a brilliant and gritty historical and literary novel with enormous implications. Uncompromising and un-flinching, it is based on real events and true family chronicles set to the backdrop of the Assyrian Massacres of 1914-1918 in Urmi, Iran. This is a unique triumph in that the Assyrian tragedy unfolds in an epic novel, the first of its kind, supported by actual painstakingly researched historical facts of a nation's raw and agonizing past; a nation that has never been fully healed of its bleeding wounds and still grieves for its fallen martyrs. Malek-Yonan's intense interest in her family s history that cannot be separated from her Assyrian heritage and historical events that have swept that nation in a deluge of bloodbath, began more than two decades ago. As she embarked on her journey of discovery, searching family documents and probing for her roots, she found a commonality with her Assyrian people who experienced the same trenchant attacks as her family at the hands of the Turks and Kurds nearly a century ago. "The Crimson Field" is a harsh, yet poetic, narrative of the author's maternal grand-mother, Maghdleta's lifelong struggle to come to terms with a momentary decision made in haste during the brutality of the Assyrian Massacres and Genocide. "The Crimson Field" is a reconstruction of history, brick by brick, reassembling the un-imaginable losses suffered by an Assyrian woman and those of her nation. Rosie Malek-Yonan's high-spirited approach affords the reader a rare glimpse into the lives of a nation bereaved and long imagined to be forgotten. This epic novel is a tender reminder of the resilience of a people in their quest for survival. "The Crimson Field" is the author's Requiem Mass for her Assyria.
About
the Author
Rosie Malek-Yonan (in Aramaic: ܪܘܙܝ ܡܠܟ ܝܘܢܢ) is an Assyrian actress, artist, director, author and human rights activist.
Born on July 4th, 1965 in Tehran, Iran, to George Malek-Yonan and Lida Malek-Yonan, Rosie is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian families, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly eleven centuries. The Malek family or tribe came from the Assyrian village of Geogtapah, Urmia (Urmi), a region in northwestern Iran. Geogtapa was the largest Assyrian Christian village in the region and much of it belonged to the Malek-Yonan family with the oldest plot in the family graveyard dating back to 1,100 CE.
During the
Assyrian Genocide of 1914-1918, Rosie's grandparents
left their ancestral homeland in Urmia, Iran, during the
Great Exodus from Urmi. The Malek-Yonan family fled to
Mesopotamia where her father was born in
Baghdad, while Rosie's maternal grandmother fled to
Russia where her mother was born in
Rostov. Years later, both families returned to Tehran
where her parents met and were married. Rosie has a younger
sister, Monica, who works very closely with her on most of
her projects. Rosie's great-great-uncle, Dr. Jesse
Malek-Yonan
represented the Assyrians of Urmi during the Paris Peace
Talks in 1919 after World War I. [more...]
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