On 17 December 1980, at 9:47 am, two men shot the Turkish
consul-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, My
Name Is Revenge is a novella set in 1980s Sydney and based on true
events.
From the assassination in Australia, one of a series of
international terrorist attacks, the story traces back to the streets of 1920s
Berlin and the Armenian genocide of World War I. Three companion essays provide
historical context.
'Informed by a passion to express the haunting of almost
unimaginable historical crimes, and the tragic shapes that vengeance for those
crimes can take...Kalagian Blunt expertly and compassionately examines the
nature of truth and its representation via the conjunction of fiction and
essay.' — Carmel Bird, Patrick
White Literary Award winner
'Ashley Kalagian Blunt weaves a mostly-forgotten strand of
our history into a compelling contemporary crime story. My Name Is
Revenge manages to be both unflinching in its depiction of inherited
hatreds and compassionate about the experience of living with the terrible
aftermath of a genocide that the world has largely ignored.' — Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident
'A heartfelt and
gripping story of family, hardship and resilience.' — Candice Fox
