In Aleppo Once
by Taqui Altounyan
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- Original title
- In Aleppo once
- Original publication date
- 1969
- Important places
- Aleppo, Syria; Armenia
- Epigraph
- [None]
- Dedication
- TO BOB
(of course)
and in memory of my niece
LUCINE VILLARD - First words
- When as a child my father rode his white donkey about the sun-dazzled streets of Aleppo he would sometimes hear people say 'Mashallah! there goes the son of "el Americani".'
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)To leave Aleppo was always exile, but when I was there for any length of time I longed to get away into the 'big world'.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)We look bemused, but he is his usual collected, cheerful self, equal to any occasion, and seems to be holding us up.
(Epilogue) - Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- First published by John Murray in 1969. Republished by Amazon Publications in 2001 as a limited subscription edition for members of the Arthur Ransome Society.
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