The Sandcastle Girls (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• David Hebert: council Marten's assistant
• Garo: Armen's brother
• William Forbes: doctor who came to Aleppo to help the deportees
• Djemal Pasha: commander of the Ottoman Fourth Army
• Sister Irmingard: nun at the orphanage
• Orhan: private in the Turkish army
• Arshile Gorky: a Armenian famous painter.
• Laura: Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in suburban New York; narrator
• Adrian: Australian soldier
• Karine Petrosian: deceased wife of Armen
• Augusto Gemignani: grandfather of Laura's husband Bob
• Anna: Laura's daughter
• Elizabeth Endicott: volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to help deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide
• Talat Pasha: Committe of Union and Progress
• Jonathan Peckham: old beau of Elizabeth
• Hugh Pettigrew: doctor that came to Aleppa
• Farhat Sahin: new official in the administer's office
• Hratch: Armen's brother who was killed in war
• Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian: famous Armenia chess player
• Nezimi: a young administrater in the goverment office; use to be a friend of Armen
• Clara Barton: founder of the Red Cross
• Alicia Wells: missionary
• Jessica: women that Laura met who was also looking for her roots
• Shoushan: An Armenian orphan girl, Hatoun's friend
• Hatoun: a child who was part of the deportees that Nevart had taken under her wing
• Dr. Sayied Akcam: doctor examining the children before taking them to the orphanage
• Nevart: one of the victims of the genicide that Elizabeth met; her hisband was a doctor, Serge, who went to school in London
• Helmut Krause: a german soldier in Aleppo; photographed many of the deportees
• Peter Vartanian: Add a description of this character.
• Alice Blackwell: founded the friends of Armenia
• Oscar Kretschmer: an officiious assistant to Ulrich Lang the German consul in Aleppo
• Matthew: Laura's son
• Ani: young girl who was a victim of massacre
• Talene: Armen's deceased daughter
• Berk: old boyfriend'
• Ulrich Lange: the German consul in Aleppo
• Hasan Sabri
• Silas Endicott: father of Elizabeth; banker
• Ryan Donald Martin: member of the consulet in Armenia 1915
• Bob: Laura's husband
• Eric: a german soldier in Aleppo; engineer
• Enver Pasha: One of the masterminds behind the Armenian Genocide
• Armen Petrosian: a german soldier who was Armenian; Turkish citizen; engineer; his wife and child had died
• Taylor
• Henry Morgenthau: the American ambassador in Constantinoble
• Helmut: the German soldier with the scar
• Sister Irmangard: Sister at the orphanage
• Remela: 12 year old girl in the orphanage
• Greg: Greg is Laura's twin brother

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• “Because to much of the nation (Turkey) - though, thankfully not all - that genocide in the desert never happened. Even now, labeling the slaughter of 1915 "genocide" can land a Turkish citizen in jail and get a Turkish Armenian journalist killed.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Aleppo
• Harput
• Boston
• Armenia
• Dardanelles
• Watertown
• Syria
• Adana
• Damascus
• Mount Holyoke
• Berlin
• London
• Cairo
• Zeitun
• Alexandria
• Constantinople
• Ankara
• Gallipoli
• Port Said
• New York City

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Glossary edit see section history

• enfilade: A volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Chris Bohjalian (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3552.O495S26 2012
• Dewey: 813.54

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

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