Intro -- CONTENTS -- INSTEAD OF A PROLOGUE -- PART ONE -- Constantinople 1921 -- A Quarantine Camp -- Theodoros Modis -- Paraskevi -- A Teachers College Academy -- PART TWO -- Florina 1926-1927 -- Heart beneath a Rock -- A Two-Sister Show -- The Disgrace -- Georgios Papandreou -- Further Education 1931-1933 -- The Engagement -- Kleisoura -- The Wedding -- Giorgos Th. Modis -- The House on Captain Modis Street -- PART THREE -- The War-Early Years -- Aglaïa -- The Imprisonment -- The Separation -- The German Occupation -- The Liberation of Thessaloniki -- The Communists in Florina -- The Years of the Greek Civil War -- A Damned Nameday -- PART FOUR -- Boulis -- The Stefanakises -- The Early 1950s -- Anatolia College -- A Promising Writer -- Thessaloniki 1958-1962 -- EPILOGUE -- A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES.