My Name Is Revenge: A Novella and Collected Essays

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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