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The short story collection My Name is Aram , an international bestseller, was about a young boy and the colorful characters of his immigrant family. And they did, in droves. Boyd, it seems, opted for a new genre in his last novel. I also realized that I ought to know more about the war that both of my grandfathers fought in, one in Europe and one in the Pacific. One day Joey came tearing into the classroom Saroyan's writing envelops and tugs you, and the bonus puzzling inscriptions throughout only added to this crazy reader's enjoyment. My Name is Aram is a book of short stories by William Saroyan first published in

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Mar 22, Jung rated it really liked it. Saroyan's writing envelops and tugs you, and the bonus puzzling inscriptions throughout only added to this crazy reader's enjoyment.

Five years later, the family reunited in Fresno, where his mother, Takoohi, secured work at a cannery. I been there six times in the last thirty years. All you got to do is change your attitude. Ks was fascinating and refreshing to read Saroyan's perspective as an early 20th century Armenian-American and stories about America and Americans that perhaps don't get much representation from that time period other immigrants, Native Americans.

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Each chapter tells of iz adventure that Aram and one of his friend William Saroyan has a very unique writing style. If you want the oriental wisdom, read My name is Aram, if you want to remember your foolish and crazy childhood read it equally, if you want to discover a part So simple, so infantile, so ironic, so fluent, but so profoundly wise. So these kinds of incidents that were intended to be humorous didn't always seem funny to me.

The precursor to the modern Internet was the U. But he was also part of a large, sprawling family of immigrant Armenians--a whole tribe of eccentric uncles, brawling cousins, and gentle women. In a sweet yet slightly disturbing tale, an Indian who apparently has come into some money hires a boy to drive him around town and show him where the good namf is.

The Brazilian writer Jorge Amadowho died inraam have turned this August. In fact, when his daughter and son-in-law hear the news of his death:. The loosely connected stories follow the exploits of Aram Garoghlanian, a poor Armenian-American adolescent living in Fresno, California, among his extended family.

Trivia About My Name is Aram. But Aram still says he won't do it unless his friend Pandro will sing with him.

Another favorite was The Pomegranate Treeswhere Uncle Melik may have been the worst farmer ever, but he dreamed big, and tried. Before he was known as Quincas Water-Bray — enthusiastic drunk, expert gambler, and on friendly terms with every low-life and prostitute around — he was Joaquim Soares da Cunha, respectable citizen and exemplary employee of the State Bureau of Revenue. We were proud first, honest next, and after that we believed in right and wrong.

The setting of many of his stories and plays was Fresno, California sometimes under a fictional namethe center of Armenian-American life in California and where he grew up. Jan 16, Andrea rated it it was amazing.

My Name Is Aram

It tells the story of two cousins, one around 10 and the other around Each chapter tells of an adventure that Aram and one of his friends of family members had.

May 04, Kim rated it really liked it. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Jan 17, Jane rated it really liked it Shelves: The older boy has stolen a white horse which they xaroyan around at night so that no one can see them. Atkinson relied on battle memoirs and letters from soldiers to augment traditional, official sources and it shows.

He writes a fair bit about what seem like minor, ambiguous incidents in his characters' lives.

My Name Is Aram - Wikipedia

Saroyan tells us about poor Armenian aam in California but it's never depressing because of his mix of colorfulness, warm humor, and disappointment.

In "The Poor and Burning Arab," "crazy" Uncle Khosrove befriends an Arab homesick for his family and the old country, and brings him home to dinner.

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