5 edition of Ruling over the ruins found in the catalog.
Published
1998
by Capital Books in Sterling, Va
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | by Kevork Ajemian. |
| Genre | Fiction. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PR9570.L43 A395 1998 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | v, 262 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 262 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL3542870M |
| ISBN 10 | 1892123045 |
| LC Control Number | 2001524108 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 46537749 |
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His Ruling over the Ruins novel is a love story of a bright young Irish journalist and an aging Armenian lawyer marooned together in war-ravaged Beirut. According to Kari S. Neely, Ajemian's writings in both Armenian and English are more like philosophical tracks than fiction and his "writing style, perhaps like his lifestyle, is aggressive and direct, never mincing words".Born:Manbij, Syria.
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