sentences:  As a novelist he experimented with modern forms and postsurrealist techniques.According to "The Book Buyer's Guide" (1969), in his first English novel "Symphony in Discord", Ajemian, "a well-known Armenian author takes a look and a laugh at life in an unusually provocative study".His "Ruling over the Ruins" novel is a love story of a bright young Irish journalist and an aging Armenian lawyer marooned together in war-ravaged Beirut.