Yedinci Adam

Author: John Berger, Semih Sökmen

“In order to convey the experience of the immigrant worker to the reader, we needed political analysis and poetry on the other. We both quoted economists and structured it like a storyteller. Most of all, we needed photos. Thus, we repeat the experimental process we started in Ways of Seeing. This time, on a different topic, we aimed to get closer to the material conditions and feelings of migrant workers through words and images...

“Today, I still come across Southern readers who pick up this book from a slum in Istanbul, a Greek port, a slum in Madrid, Damascus or Bombay and tell me how impressed they were when they first read it. In such places, the book reached the right address and received friendly attention. For these readers, The Seventh Man is no longer a sociological or first-order political treatise, but rather a family album – an album where one will encounter the stories of relatives, memories, and a series of lived moments.”

–John Berger

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

First Print Year: 2018

Number of Pages: 248

Size: 13 x 19.5