Beyond the Aegean
$17.50 CAD • Used
DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.0 X 6.5 X 1.6 inches; 449 pages; "The First World War has barely ended. Greek forces are reclaim...
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DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.0 X 6.5 X 1.6 inches; 449 pages; "The First World War has barely ended. Greek forces are reclaiming Anatolia from the Turks. And Stavros Topouzoglouwho twenty years earlier, escaping oppression of Turkish rule, fled to America only to discover the venality of his dream of an American lifedisembarks to reclaim his homeland. Here he will recast his life and rid himself of his obsession with the elegant American woman who has become for him the ultimate symbol of success. He will marry an Anatolian girl who will treat him like and agha. He will have the life his father had. Stavross energy and arrogance propel him to an astonishing success in his war-torn country. Deep in the interior of Anatolia, he meets the woman who he thinks will complete this new vision of himselfthe fiercely independent Thomna. But he does not know that her passion matches his own twenty years beforeto get to America at any cost. His passion now is for Anatolia, and bringing his mother and sister back from America, he pursues his fortune further into dangerous areas, behind the lines of combateven when learns that the Allies have deserted the Greeks, even after he loses his brother to the Greco-Turkish war."
Product Info
ISBN: 0679425659
ISBN-13: 9780679425656
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 1994
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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