Movie Based On ‘The Sandcastle Girls’ To Be Filmed Next Year

Chris Bohjalian speaking to readers at the Literary Ark Festival 2015 (Source: Armenpress)

YEREVAN (ARMENPRESS)””Armenian-American novelist Chris Bohjalian did not expect that his book The Sandcastle Girls, which tells the story of the Armenian Genocide in a new light, would be read not only in the U.S. but around world.

The honorary guest of the Literary Ark Festival 2015 said during a meeting with Armenian readers that when he started the book in 2010, he decided to write it in a way so that American readers could learn about the Armenian Genocide through a love story. His readers, according to Bohjalian, did not have to be ashamed for not knowing about the Armenian Genocide. The author said that he had never expected the book to be read outside of the U.S. and moreover that a film would be shot based on the book. Bohjalian’s friend, Eric Nazarian, will start filming in Boston and Spain in the coming year.

Describing it as “his most personal adaptation yet,”