`Farewell Anatolia` is a tale of paradise lost and of shattered innocence; a tragic fresco of the fall of Hellenism in Asia Minor; a stinging indictment of Great Power politics, oil-lust and corruption. Dido Sotiriou`s novel - a perennial best seller in Greece since it first appeared in 1962 - tells the story of Manolis Axiotis, a poor but resourceful villager born near the ancient ruins of Ephesus. Axiotis is a fictional protagonist and eyewitness to an authentic nightmare: Greece`s `Asia Minor Catastrophe`, the death or expulsion of two million Greeks from Turkey by Kemal Attaturk`s revolutionary forces in the late summer of 1922. (. . .)

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