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A passionate, love song of Asia Minor, Mikrasia comes to my lips as a glistening blade gashes my throat. The dusky, coarse Ottoman’s hand brings Turkish words to my mind as madness and devastation surrounds me.

This passionate song turns into a heartbreaking elegy, while a hoarse, callous voice orders me to pray. I can feel my whole life pass before my sealed eyelids.

Our home in Fokaia, the massacre, the pursuit, the monastery, the slavery, freedom, Smyrna, Conia, Cappadocia, Aivali, Aidini, and my beloved Giannos, looking at me with tears in my eyes.

I don’t cry now, however, nor do I pray or beg. I just stand here – motionless – waiting for his blade to tear my flesh to shreds. I have nothing to fear.

A vivid novel that tells of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, of the Greeks’ flight from their homes, of destruction and hate, but also of love and friendship, of family and hope.