Atsikana a Sandcastle
Chris Bohjalian, 2012
Knopf Doubleday
320 p.
ISBN-13: 9780307743916
Chidule
M'buku lake la khumi ndi zisanu, Atsikana a Sandcastle, Chris Bohjalian akutitengera ku nthawi ndi malo—Syria, 1915—zomwe zinasiya mbiri yovuta ya cholowa chake cha ku Armenia, zomwe zimapangitsa kuti bukuli likhale lake laumwini kwambiri mpaka pano.
Nkhani yachikondi yakale kwambiri, Atsikana a Sandcastle Nkhaniyi ikutiuza za Elizabeth Endicott, wophunzira wofuna kuphunzira zinthu zatsopano ku Mount Holyoke College yemwe amapita ku Syria nkhondo yoyamba itangoyamba kufalikira ku Ulaya konse. Pokhala ndi maphunziro osavuta a unamwino, Elizabeth wadzipereka m'malo mwa bungwe la Friends of Armenia lomwe lili ku Boston kuti apereke chakudya ndi chithandizo chamankhwala kwa othawa kwawo omwe adaphedwa chifukwa cha kuphedwa kwa anthu ambiri.
Posakhalitsa anayamba ubwenzi ndi mainjiniya wa ku Armenia wodziwika bwino. Ali wamng'ono, koma mkazi wake ndi mwana wake wamkazi wakhanda anamwalira kale chifukwa cha nkhanza za ku Turkey. Armen atachoka ku Aleppo kukalowa nawo gulu lankhondo la Britain ku Egypt, iye ndi Elizabeth anayamba kulemberana makalata molimba mtima, akulumikiza maiko awo osiyana kwambiri ndi mawu achikondi ndi chiyembekezo.
Nkhani yawo ikugwirizana ndi nkhani ya Laura Petrosian, wolemba mabuku wamakono wokhala mumzinda wa New York. Ngakhale kuti nyumba ya agogo ake okongola ya ku Pelham inkatchedwa kuti "The Ottoman Annex," Laura sanaganizirepo kwambiri za cholowa chake cha ku Armenia.
Koma pamene mnzake wakale akuyimba foni, akunena kuti adawona chithunzi cha agogo ake a Laura m'nyuzipepala akutsatsa chiwonetsero ku nyumba yosungiramo zinthu zakale ku Boston, Laura akuyamba ulendo wobwerera m'mbuyo m'mbiri ya banja lake yomwe imavumbula chikondi, kutayika—ndi chinsinsi chopweteka chomwe chabisika kwa mibadwomibadwo.
Nkhani yaikulu ya chikondi ndi nkhondo, Atsikana a Sandcastle idzakopa gulu lanu lowerenga. Tikukhulupirira kuti bukuli lidzakulitsa zokambirana zanu. (Kuchokera kwa wofalitsa.)