{"product_id":"the-forty-days-of-musa-dagh","title":"The Forty Days of Musa Dagh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--StartFragment --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"pf0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cf0\"\u003eBy Franz Werfel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf0\"\u003eTranslated by Geoffrey Dunlop and James \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf0\"\u003eReidel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"pf0\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf0\"\u003e“In every sense a true and thrilling novel....It tells a story which it is almost one’s duty as an intelligent human being to read. And one’s duty here becomes one's pleasure also.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf1\"\u003e—New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"pf0\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf1\"\u003e“For Armenians, it remains unique and precious...it’s the one work whose urgency and passion keeps the truth of their genocide before the eyes of a world that would prefer to forget about it. For Jewish readers, Werfel’s epic about the choice between submitting to the killers or dying on the barricade is still poignant. In several ghettos where the Nazis held Jewish populations before murdering them, The Forty Days of Musa \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf1\"\u003eDagh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf1\"\u003e was passed from hand to hand and became the inspiration—almost the manual—for the sacrificial ghetto risings that followed. Werfel wins an argument with the world’s indifference—and wins it crushingly.” —London Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"pf0\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe heroic story of resistance during the Armenian genocide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"pf0\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf0\"\u003eWhen the Turkish government ordered the deportation of Armenians, several villages in the mountains chose not to obey. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf0\"\u003eDagh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf0\"\u003e and repelled Turkish soldiers and military police during the summer of 1915 while holding out hope that the warships of the Allies would save them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"pf0\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eAn international bestseller when first published in 1933, and the first novel in modern times to capture genocide by a state, Franz Werfel's masterpiece brought the world's attention to this devastating crime against humanity and the Armenian people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"pf0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cf0\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e936 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf0\"\u003eVerba\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf0\"\u003e Mundi, 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOriginally published in 1933\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e5.5 x 1.97 x 8.5 inches\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eISBN 9781567928211\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eLiterature, History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--EndFragment --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53691378532520,"sku":"9781567928211","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/Werfel_Forty-Days-of-Musa-Dagh_2025.webp?v=1757021356","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/the-forty-days-of-musa-dagh","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}