Beyond the Aegean
by Kazan, Elia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679425659
- ISBN 13
- 9780679425656
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679425659 . 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." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20467
- Title
- Beyond the Aegean
- Author
- Kazan, Elia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679425659
- ISBN 13
- 9780679425656
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- 0679425659, Anatolia, Greece
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Ainsworth Books
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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