Word: hamal
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...Anatolian-born Stavros, or Joe Arness, as his American friends call him, has finally saved up enough money to bring his whole family: "Mommah," four brothers and three sisters to the U.S. He has laid a veneer of American-style street smarts on the skills of the hamal, or dock walloper, who learned survival on the wharves of Turkish Constantinople. Even more important, in the two decades since Stavros' first arrival on the bestseller lists, Kazan, the stage and screen director, has learned to write a novel. Under the surface of his adrenal prose style and a crowded, boiling...
...boyish, self-effacing smiles when his father sends him off to Constantinople to invest his family's meager fortune and thereby save them from Turkish persecution. Everything goes wrong. Stavros is robbed and humiliated by a roguish Turk, whom he finally murders. He slaves as a hamal, hauling back-breaking burdens on the Constantinople waterfront, only to be robbed again by a prostitute. He is shot and left for dead after falling in with a band of insurrectionists. One compelling scene shows the rebels' bodies being flung into the sea, while their women, swathed in black, watch from...
...teaching that even his shadow would pollute a high-caste Indian. Like every other good Hindu, he was enjoined for his soul's good to accept with resignation the life to which he was born. But even as a boy, Bhimrao had other plans. Supporting himself as a hamal (one who cleans floors and bathrooms), he worked his way through the village school, won a scholarship for college in Bombay, where reports of his intelligence reached the ears of the benevolent Gaekwar of Baroda. The Gaekwar sent him to the U.S. for two years' study at Columbia University...
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