A historical novel that tells of a group of five thousand Armenian villagers, led by Gabriel Bagradian, who retreat to the mountain Musa Dagh in 1915 where they struggle for forty days against Turkish troops whose goal is to exterminate the Armenian people.
A coming-of-age story about Eugene Gant, a restless and energetic character whose passion to experience life takes him from his small, rural hometown in North Carolina to Harvard University and the city of Boston.