"A Summer without Dawn is a credit to the historical genre. Its accurate depiction of events does not take away from the deep psychological richness of the characters. The language is rich, studded with Armenian words, and perfectly adapted to the novels ample descriptions and abundant anecdotes. The characters are true heroes such as one seldom sees: a bit larger than life. In short, a captivating book by authors worth watching."
--Le Devoir (Montreal)

"A novel of Armenian tragedy is already a best-seller in Europe . . . A Summer without Dawn was first published in French, then quickly translated into German, Spanish and Rumanian . . . It has sold a quarter of a million copies, received excellent reviews and generated comparisons with historical novels such as Dr. Zhivago . . ."
--The Gazette (Montreal)

"[The authors have] produced a gripping read. [They have] a very good eye for detail. Most striking is the way it evokes the acrid smell of rotting Ottoman empire on the eve of its destruction . . . This is a fascinating and cinematic novel written from the gut."
--The Independent (London)

"A novel to supersede Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh has at last been written. A Summer Without Dawn is an epic which assiduously faithful to history, shows that events will always create their own momentum, that atrocities, even if brushed under the carpet and condemned to oblivion, will invariably surface and cry out . . . The characters are masterfully drawn and elicit immense empathy from the reader; when they love, they love truly; when they collapse, they cry out for a Simon of Cyrene; and when they bleed, their blood drips from the page . . ."
--Morris Farhi, MBE, Fellow of Royal Society of Literature

"The Turkish massacre of Armenians in 1915 has been virtually ignored in world literature, outside of Armenian writings. The irony of that the fate of the Armenians was almost a prototype of the Holocaust in Europe, ‘Who remembers the Armenians?' Hitler is reported to have said, in response to fears that Germany's reputation would suffer because of its persecution of the Jews . . . a massive historical novel on the events of 1915-one of the first since Werfel's epic. The appearance of A Summer without Dawn in English follows its successful French language publication in Quebec and France . . ."
--The Toronto Star

"This work is quite without parallel in its richness of detail, despite the fact that its action unfolds during the First World War . . . Certain of the episodes related in this cross-section of history are extremely painful, but the storytelling talents of the author and the romantic plot that is developed with such superb skill combine to endow them with an undeniable fascination . . . One quickly becomes attached to this young family . . . Whose chaotic path the author persuades us to follow, with utmost realism and the most beautiful of feelings to the very last page. The spirited writing, the vivid stile, and the frequent twists of plot, all play a part in keeping interest at the boiling point. I got swept along by it myself: forced to dip into the novel as background for an interview with the novelist, I found myself unable to put it down until I finished it."
--La Tribune (Montreal)

"A Summer without Dawn remains both a broad, meaty adventure and a sharp reminder of the eternal stupidity of ethnic hatred . . . It would probably need a Tolstoy to deliver the entire package-epic plot and fully human characters and moral dilemmas and exotic settings and a compelling history lesson and crackerjack writing . . . few authors, in these cool, cynical, minimalist days, attack books of this scope . . . For this Hacikyan and Soucy deserve full marks . . ."
--National Post (Canada)