New audiobook and e-book: The Barracks, Vrtanes Papazyan

Set in the late nineteenth century in the Armenian villages around Lake Van in the Ottoman Empire, the story portrays a community living under poverty, heavy taxation, and constant injustice. Through the narrator’s encounters with villagers and church figures, the work explores the burden placed on ordinary people, the gap between authority and moral duty, and the struggle to preserve dignity in conditions of fear, dependence, and social oppression.