With this volume of the Diaspora Series appears Nigoghos Sarafian’s novel Manuk Dounean. In this work, the author’s observations are highlighted in light of the problematic realities of chaos within reality and the reality of chaos: “An uprooted Armenian, a man of his century at the same time, wandering across all the camps of the world, cut off from his homeland and his people…”

Manuk Dounean, the son of a Constantinopolitan merchant, was the victim of the East–West conflict and of the resulting acute awareness of inner duality—“the pain of feeling himself small.”Each book in the Diaspora series presents the best works of writers from the Armenian Diaspora.

Prepared for publication by Arthur Andranikean.