My Grandmother
By Fethiye Çetin
Translated by Maureen Freely
Verso £12.99, 160 pages
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In 1915, the author’s Armenian grandmother, Heranus, was a little girl forced on a death march with others from her village. The men were taken away by the gendarmes, never to return; some women drowned their children and then themselves in the river. Those who could no longer walk were killed with bayonets. A corporal on horseback snatched Heranus from her mother and galloped off to raise her as his Muslim Turk daughter, renaming her Seher.