''A Lamp Lights The Way Back'' is a memoir. However, it does not appear to be just personal as most of the memoirs do. It speaks about the whole era, which are also based on my ancestors' tales. I knitted my parents' memories with my own ones to tell the readers how my parents and grandparents lived at the time of Soviet terror, and how Armenia lost many of its precious lands with their historical and cultural heritage. I do not only speak of the events what my eyes have seen, but what my ears heard as well. My memories go back and ahead, too. They roam from past to present, speaking about life and death, wars and peace, happiness and unhappiness. My ears heard about the Second World War, but my eyes saw the war that happened on the Armenian borders and Artsakh at the time of the global pandemic of covid. I think the loss of Artsakh was another genocide that happened to my nation.
My memoir reflects a human condition, which may refer not only to me, but anyone else as well.
Due to the metaphors, allegorical expressions and poetic descriptions my memoir looks like a novel to be read with a great interest.