Book Launch of "The Long Dark Night of K. Levonovich" by Edward Tawil
Edward Tawil and Librairie Résonance
Kevork Badalian from Alexandria, young and idealistic, dreamed of leaving exile behind and living in his homeland. Like thousands of other diaspora Armenians, he left Egypt in 1947 in an organized emigration to resettle in Soviet Armenia. There, caught in a postwar Stalinist purge, he was arrested in 1949 and sentenced to exile in Siberia. Years later, following the death of Stalin, the camps are being emptied. Kevork’s wife (whom he had met in exile), and his infant daughter are being released, while he will be left behind. Set in a dark, cold December night before his wife’s departure, sleepless in his Siberian peasant hut, the novel relates Kevork Badalian’s personal crisis provoked by this imminent departure, through long repressed memories going back to Egypt and his family’s native villages in the Ottoman Empire. Beautifully written, The Long Dark Night of K. Levonovich is a powerful and intimate story of anguish and separation, that explores the meaning of exile, and the seeking of hope in the darkest recesses of suffering through the redemptive power of love.
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