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I just started reading this book, and I like it: the style, the story, characters. What bothers me a bit is that I cannot figure out what period of time this story is going on? when there is a war, which war? Is this in Soviet era? or is it before? can somebody answer this question please?

Alex The story of the village spans most of the 20th century, as it traces lives of several generations.
Maran is a fictional place, just like Macondo in O…moreThe story of the village spans most of the 20th century, as it traces lives of several generations.
Maran is a fictional place, just like Macondo in One Hundred Years of Solitude. Being fictional most of the events in the book have some real background though.
When the portrait of a relative is hidden in the attic, this is a hint to the beginning of the Soviet era. Bolsheviks created Soviet republic of Armenia in 1922.
Huge earthquake might be referencing the Spitak earthquake of 1988, that took the lives of nearly 50.000 people in Armenia.
War in the book is most likely first Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of 1988–1994(less)

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