Not Even My Name
Subtitle: A True Story
Edition: 1st Picador USA Pbk. Ed edition
Publisher: Picador
Published: June 2, 2001
Place of publication: New York, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780312277017
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: First World War; Biography: general; European history: First World War; Genocide; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; ASIA; Childhood Memoir; Ethnic Cultures - General; Historical - General; History / Greece; Pontic Mountains (Turkey); Women; Greek; Social conditions; 20th Century; Reading Group Guide; Europe - Greece; Biography; Greek American women; Greek Americans; Greeks; Turkey
First sentence: Tourists line the railing of the ferry.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: label: Book One:
title: The Long Journey Home; label: 1.
title: The River of Dreams; label: 2.
title: The Long Journey Home; label: 3.
title: Recrossing; label: 4.
title: In the Blink of an Eye; label: 5.
title: Step by Step; label: 6.
title: One the Road to Iondone; label: Book Two:
title: Not Even My Name; title: Historical Notation; label: 7.
title: Not Even My Name; label: 8.
title: A Caravan of Cows; label: 9.
title: Battles and Bells; label: 10.
title: The Year of the Snake; label: 11.
title: The Taking of Father; label: 12.
title: The Year of Famine; label: 13.
title: Winter Tales; label: 14.
title: The Drowned Man; label: 15.
title: From the Beginning of Time; label: 16.
title: Orders of Exile; label: 17.
title: Wait for Me; label: Book Three:
title: The Exile; title: Historical Notation; label: 18.
title: The Long Road to Hell; label: 19.
title: Babies and Buzzards; label: 20.
title: Holding Death in My Arms; label: 21.
title: The Great Escape; label: 22.
title: The Great Giveaway; label: 23.
title: Raven, Raven; label: 24.
title: Touching the Hand of God; label: 25.
title: And Then There Were None; label: 26.
title: Little Loaves; label: 27.
title: Don't Look Back; label: 28.
title: Diyarbakir; label: 29.
title: On the Road to Aleppo; label: 30.
title: Say I Do; label: 31.
title: The Mysterious Little Blanket; label: 32.
title: The Big Bet; label: 33.
title: The Kidnapping; label: 34.
title: Crossing the Great Waters; label: Book Four:
title: America, America; label: 35.
title: America, America; label: 36.
title: The Old and the New; label: 37.
title: Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker; label: 38.
title: Another Place Called Home; label: 39.
title: Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief; label: 40.
title: Abraham, Abraham; label: 41.
title: Mrs.; label: 42.
title: Go with God; label: Book Five:
title: Journey's End; label: 43.
title: Abraham, My Own; label: 44.
title: Journey's End; label: 45.
title: A Diamond in the Ash; title: Notes