Not Even My Name (Paperback, 1st Picador USA Pbk. Ed)

Not Even My Name is a rare eyewitness account of the horrors of a little-known, often denied genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey were killed during and after World War I. As told by Sano Halo to her daughter, Thea, this is the story of her survival of the death march at age ten that annihilated her family, and the mother-daughter pilgrimage to Turkey in search of Sano's home seventy years after her exile. Sano, a Pontic Greek from a small village near the Black Sea, also recounts the end of her ancient, pastoral way of life in the Pontic Mountains.

In the spring of 1920, Turkish soldiers arrived in the village and shouted the proclamation issued by General Kemal Attatürk: "You are to leave this place. You are to take with you only what you can carry . . . " After surviving the march, Sano was sold into marriage at age fifteen to a man three times her age who brought her to America. Not Even My Name follows Sano's marriage, the raising of her ten children, and her transformation from an innocent girl who lived an ancient way of life in a remote place to a woman in twentieth-century New York City.

Although Turkey actively suppresses the truth about the murder of almost three million of its Christian minorities--Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian--during and after World War I, and the exile of millions of others, here is a first-hand account of the horrors of that genocide.

General

Imprint:	Saint Martin's Press Inc.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2001
First published:	June 2001
Authors:	Thea Halo
Dimensions:	209 x 138 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
Edition:	1st Picador USA Pbk. Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-27701-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > First World War Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > First World War Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > First World War Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > First World War Books > History > European history > From 1900 > First World War Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > First World War Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-312-27701-6
Barcode:	9780312277017

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