Smyrna in Flames, A Novel
Aridjis Homero / Fox Lorna Scott
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 southeast 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 th...