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Original Title:	Not Even My Name: A True Story
ISBN:	0312277016 (ISBN13: 9780312277017)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Turkey

Not Even My Name: A True Story

Thea Halo

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 1005 Users | 138 Reviews

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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.

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Title	:	Not Even My Name: A True Story
Author	:	Thea Halo
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	June 2nd 2001 by Picador (first published May 2000)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

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Ratings: 4.24 From 1005 Users | 138 Reviews

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This has been on my to-read list for a long time. I didn't feel any emotion when she was telling her story, but maybe that is how they cope by emotionally shutting down. Otherwise, I don't know how you would survive these atrocities. It was interesting and I liked learning about the history of the Turkish, Kurds, and Greeks.

Sano Halo survived the Turkish genocide committed against The Pontic Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians in the early 20th century. It was not until Sano's daughter, Thea, wrote her mother's story after traveling back to Turkey that the fragments of memory were pieced together to create a tragic and beautiful tapestry. I read this book in eight hours, and lost myself in the vivid and often heartbreaking imagery that accompanied the narrative. As the great-granddaughter of Greek immigrants, I found

I'm about halfway through this book and don't know if I can continue. The scene that opens one of the chapters got to me so badly that I had to make myself walk away for a while. I simply cannot fathom how one can endure such atrocities and then be expected to continue any sort of normal life. How does one put such things out of one's mind? I hope to be able to pick it back up and continue at some point, but I need to read something lighter in the interim.

This story is, quite honestly, one of the most touching, lovingly written memoirs I've read. The daughter helps tell her mother's story. It is written with historical fact that is not widely known, as well as with the years of memories her mother has stored in her heart.The Turks drove her mother's people from their land in death marches that we are not taught about in school. Everything is stolen from her mom. Her mother is robbed of her childhood, her innocence, her parents, her siblings,

Most people are aware of the Turkish genocide of the Armenians in 1915, but fewer have heard about the enormous scale of the tragedy that befell other Christian groups in Turkey at the end of World War I. The harrowing story of the slaughter of two million Pontic Greeks, Assyrians and Armenians in Turkey after WWI comes to vivid life in Sano Halo's memoir, NOT EVEN MY NAME (2000), as told by her daughter Thea. Thea starts by describing a trip she took with her mother Sano, then aged 79, to find

NO SPOILERS!!!This book gets 5 stars. I don't care if at points the text seemed a little simplistic. I don't care at all. I don't give a hoot. The message is beautiful. What it teaches is beautiful, and I LOVE Sano the mother of the author. It is her that has done the teaching. This book is not just a book about Turkish ethnic cleansing. Yes, you get that too, but the prime message is how one should live a life. If you do not read this bok, you will never know about Sano. She is one of those

Note to self: this would be a fantastic book club book!! The true story of a young girl who survived the genocides in turkey in the 1920's. It is written by her daughter who did a fantastic job of including the history along with the moving story of the mothers difficult life. The memories that are related about the love of the grandmother to the mother are so sweet and encouraging.