First UK edition. 8vo. 191pp. Black and red mixed weave cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Rear dustwrapper panel blurbs by Archibald Macleish, John Steinbeck, and James Baldwin. Introduction by S.N. Behrman.
Lower board lightly soiled, jacket chipped and scuffed with a couple of closed tears, else V/G.
Author's first book, based on the life arc of his uncle who emigrated from Eastern Anatolia to America at turn of the 20th century. Source for the 1963 Academy Award-winning film by Kazan, shot on location in Greece and New York, with Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Harry Davis, and Elena Karam and original music by Manos Hadjidakis. "[T]his... startlingly simple yet beautiful prose is proof of some kind of minor literary miracle." –Orville Prescott, New York Times