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Anyush is a love story set against the backdrop of the Armenian Turkish conflict of 1915 and the Great War. Anyush Charcoudian is a young Armenian woman living with her widowed mother and grandmother in a small village on the Black Sea coast of Turkey in 1915. Her hopes of becoming a teacher or nurse are cast aside when she falls in love with the handsome Captain Jahan Orfalea, young Captain in the Turkish army. Deciding to seduce the young Armenian for a bet, he falls in love with Anyush and they conduct an affair across forbidden religious and cultural divides. Dr. Charles Stewart, a missionary doctor who comes to Turkey, realises too late the reality of the situation, and makes one last desperate attempt to save the villagers and his standing in his friend's eyes. This is a novel about the unlikely alliances forged in desperate times and the ensuing consequences, but at its heart Anyush is a story about love.