When Poppies Bloom is a novel of the eternal, unconditional and pure love of two young people from the village of Salor in Sasun. But this love is also timeless, as the Armenian people are on the brink of their own catastrophe. Salor, a fictitious Armenian village firmly rooted in its traditions, seems cut off from the rest of the world by the mountains surrounding it. Days are filled with fields, pastures, animals, harvest. While Anno and Daron longingly count the days until their reunion, they do not know that their days are actually numbered. Because although life will be peaceful and calm for this isolated village for a while, the destruction of the Armenians has begun in parallel with the Ottoman Empire's entry into the First World War, and fear has become a daily feeling with the news of massacres reaching the village.

In Boyadjian's historically grounded novel, including the Van resistance, the role played by Armenian bouncers and Kurdish tribes in 1915, you will read about the forced farewells of ordinary villagers in an ordinary Anatolian village to their beloved villages, mountains, families, lovers and poppies, and you will witness that even if lovers die, love does not die.