Date 14 April 2021
Pages 442
Format cm 15 x 23
Price € 19.00
EAN 9782368126172
Publisher Website www.editionsleduc.com

The Fragrance of Exile

Author Ondine Khayat
Publisher Charleston
A heartbreaking family saga set during the Armenian genocide and its enduring aftermath.

Taline, 37, designs perfumes for the family business founded by her grandmother Nona, who raised her. Nona passes away, leaving Taline with a leather-bound notebook from her great-grandmother Louise.
Louise was only 14 when the Armenian genocide began in 1915. Forced to flee, she lost all her loved ones, surviving an unspeakable tragedy. How to rebuild herself afterward? To have a family and be a mother when her own childhood was shattered by horror? With the help of Anton, a reporter of Armenian descent, Taline dives into her own family history. Lifting the veil on secrets and traumas of the past, will she free herself of the nightmares that have haunted her and live her own life at last?