![]() ![]() It took me approximately two weeks to finish the almost 800-page epic novel brimming with ethereal magic and a twisted reality. Thus, in the fall of 2012, I started to read it. However, my Russian friends were very persuasive. Back then, during my teenage years, I was the kind of person, who was deeply fond of classical literature and always felt suspicious of any kind of contemporary books. ![]() It felt as though everyone was talking about the book and the magic flowing from its pages.Īlthough I happened upon Petrosyan’s novel several times in the past, my arrogance prevented me from reading it. The book was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize in 2010 and won Russian Prize for the best book in Russian by an author living abroad. When writer Mariam Petrosyan published “The Gray House” in 2009, it became an instant bestseller. When people at my faculty found out I was Armenian, they would invariably ask with excitement if I had read the novel, “The Gray House,” taking into consideration that the author was Armenian. I read Petrosyan’s book in my early 20s while pursuing my Master’s degree at Lomonosov Moscow State University. ![]()
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