My Name Is Revenge

A Novella and Collected Essays

Ashley Kalagian Blunt

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English

SPINELESS WONDERS
01 June 2019

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

*Longlisted for the 2020 Davitt Awards: Adult Crime
*

On 17 December 1980, at 9:47 am, two men shot the Turkishconsul-general to Sydney and his bodyguard near the consul's home in Vaucluse.

The assassins aimed, fired, and vanished.

A finalist in the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award, MyName Is Revenge is a novella set in 1980s Sydney and based on trueevents.

From the assassination in Australia, one of a series ofinternational terrorist attacks, the story traces back to the streets of 1920sBerlin and the Armenian genocide of World War I. Three companion essays providehistorical context.

'Informed by a passion to express the haunting of almostunimaginable historical crimes, and the tragic shapes that vengeance for thosecrimes can take...

Kalagian Blunt expertly and compassionately examines thenature of truth and its representation via the conjunction of fiction andessay.' - Carmel Bird, PatrickWhite Literary Award winner

'Ashley Kalagian Blunt weaves a mostly-forgotten strand ofour history into a compelling contemporary crime story. My Name IsRevenge manages to be both unflinching in its depiction of inheritedhatreds and compassionate about the experience of living with the terribleaftermath of a genocide that the world has largely ignored.' - Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident

'A heartfelt andgripping story of family, hardship and resilience.' - Candice Fox

By: Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Imprint: SPINELESS WONDERS
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 103mm,
Weight: 170g
ISBN: 9781925052442
ISBN 10: 1925052443
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 01 June 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for My Name Is Revenge: A Novella and Collected Essays

Against a backdrop of eucalypts and thrumming cicadas, Kalagian Blunt deftly sketches her portrait of a family reckoning with its past. In her interweaving of Australian and Armenian histories, Kalagian Blunt illustrates and animates just how intricately linked her forebears' past is with Australia's own. Dealing imaginatively with questions of radicalisation, displacement, and assimilation, this story feels very pertinent to our current political climate, and makes for a gripping read. - Adele Dumont, author of No Man Is an Island ... A moving and informative piece of writing. Its history lesson is worthwhile, but even more so is its exploration of family, community and outsiders. It's about the way that denial doesn't solve a thing in life, and acknowledgement of the past is the very least that we owe our forebears. - Karen Chisholm, Newtown Review of Books