This volume of the Diaspora Series presents Hrach Zardarian’s novel The Orphaning People. Zardarian’s prolific life coincided with an extremely complex and contradictory period of the Diaspora, when Armenians were in search of identity, burdened with both “negative and positive” threats.

According to the author, The Orphaning People was “born unexpectedly.” It reflects the concerns that deeply preoccupied him — the problem of man and freedom — yet under what conditions? Under circumstances where the sense of alienation lurked within each individual, penetrating the very atmosphere of the community.

Each book in the Diaspora Series showcases the finest works of Diaspora Armenian writers. 

Prepared for publication by Arthur Andranikean.