De vita sua

Abstract

Dr. Nina Garsoïan begins her masterfully written autobiography by introducing the reader to the émigré world into which she was born. She paints candid pictures of her parents and grandparents, ethnic Armenians who had never lived in Armenia. In the early pages of her memoir Dr. Garsoïan relates what is known of the family’s history in Rostov-on-Don, Russia and Tbilisi, Georgia and how, despite a series of trials and tribulations, they came to live in France