The Bastard of Istanbul

I just finished reading an interesting book, "The Bastard of Istanbul". It defininitely was not a thriller or action type of story but it wove the story of a Turkish family and an Armenian family and the importance of history and how it is viewed by those whose ancestors were victims of atrocities and those whose ancestors perhaps perpetrated some of the atrocities. Can a group of people have "being victims" as their collective psyche. Even though it was their ancestors who were the victims does concentrating on that history make the descendents victims as well. And are not the desendents of the perpetraters also victims by trying to ignore that history. I consider this to be a book worth reading.