New e-book: The Struggle, Vahan Totovents

New York in 1929 is seen through the eyes of an Armenian immigrant as a noisy and divided city. Working in an oriental carpet store, the narrator encounters a world where people, like goods, are measured by usefulness and price. Political campaigning, newspaper propaganda, the lives of fellow Armenians, and memories of first love reveal the gap between prosperity and suffering. The work explores exile, poverty, exploitation, moral compromise, and the struggle to preserve human dignity.