Word: hamal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
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