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Forgotten Fire : ウィキペディア英語版 | Forgotten Fire ''Forgotten Fire'' (2002) is a young adult novel by Adam Bagdasarian. The book is based on a true story and follows the young boy Vahan Kenderian through the Armenian Genocide of 1915 to 1923.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.armenian-genocide.org/Education.73/current_category.123/resourceguide_detail.html )〕 It became a National Book Award finalist, National Book Award for Young People's Literature honor, and the IRA Children's Literature and Reading Notable Book for a Global Society. ==Plot summary== The novel is about a young teen boy, Vahan Kenderian, who must resort to a variety of measures to survive the Armenian genocide. Having lived a privileged life as the youngest son of one of Armenia's richest men, Vahan witnesses the deaths of family members - often through execution. One of his sisters commits suicide with poison to avoid suffering rape. While surviving the war and genocide, Vahan aims to reach Constantinople where refugees are taken to safety. From there on, Vahan feels relieved because this marks the end to his suffering. His only relative to survive the genocide is his sister Oskina, who he is separated from early in the novel. They are reunited at the end of the book.
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