«The Forty Days of Musa Dagh » in German with a Parallel Translation
Original title:
Die Vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh
Language:
German
Difficulty:
C1
Year:
1933
Number of pages:
762
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is a 1933 novel by Austrian writer Franz Werfel. The novel is based on real events that took place in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide. The book narrates the defense of a small Armenian community dwelling near Mount Musa Dagh. The idea occurred to the author in 1929 in Damascus, when he saw Armenian children working at a carpet factory. The novel has been translated into 34 languages.
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