Boxwalla August 2017 Book Box Spoilers!

We have spoilers for the August Boxwalla Book box:

The Theme of the August Book Box is 'Language & Identity'  with writers from the United States of America & Armenia.

Each August Book Box will contain Armenian writer Zareh Vorpouni's novel 'The Candidate' which was translated just last year from Western Armenian, forty years after it was first published in 1967.

The modern Armenian language has two forms: Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian. During the 1915 Armenian genocide, most Western Armenians were driven out the country and they settled all over the world. And now Western Armenian is only spoken by the Armenian diaspora. In 2009, UNESCO identified Western Armenian as an endangered language. Since language and culture are so inextricably linked and culture in turn shapes identity, the preservation of language is an important part of preserving identities. We are excited to showcase a book translated from this disappearing language.

Now and then people would rush past, the sidewalk rumbling like an empty barrel under their feet. At that moment, the street - like a watchdog opening and closing its eyes - would wake up with a start, only to lazily fall back asleep. Most of the people on the street were busboys, waiters, or cleaners who worked in banks or government buildings. In their haste none of them had time to care about Minas's mindless laughter.

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