Smyrna in Flames: A Novel by Homero Aridjis, translated by Lorna Scott Fox
English | October 5, 2021 | ISBN: 1942134754 | True EPUB | 166 pages | 21.7 MB
This powerful and moving historical novel is inspired by the written recollections and the memories that haunted the author's father, Nicias Aridjis,-a captain in the Greek army, who returned from the fields of battle to Smyrna, 50 miles northwest of his hometown of Tire, in 1922 just as Turkish forces captured this cosmopolitan port city. Smyrna in Flames , by the internationally acclaimed Mexican writer and poet Homero Aridjis, lays bare the unimaginable events and horrors that took place for nine days between September 13 and 22-known as the Smyrna Catastrophe. After capturing Smyrna, Turkish forces went on a rampage, torturing and massacring tens of thousands of Greeks and Armenians and devastating the city-in particular, the Greek and Armenian quarters-by deliberately setting disastrous fires.
