YEREVAN, JUNE 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The publishing house "Hayastan" ("Armenia") published the "Ararat" novel by Elgin Groseclose, an American writer. Svetlana Tumanian translated the novel from English. In the novel the writer attempts to understand the secret of existance of an ancient nation surrounded by hostile forces, depressed but having kept the poetic soul. For finding an answer for the question, Elgin Groseclose chose a short period from the Armenian people's history, 1895-1920, and interlacing with small and great events taking place in the world, created a miraculous story about a human-being's vanity, fights, despairs, hopes and expectations. All threads of this story are led to the Ararat mountain, the key to an answer for the question touching the author. The author is also anxious with the issue why some nations disappear from the historic scene, and some nations survive. And how the Armenian people escaped when it was under the threat of being massacred in the Ottaman Empire. "It is only one historic event, but numerous similar events were fixed and are still fixed in nations' chronologies," the American writer mentioned.

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