Leon Surmelian. 
 
Alan Swallow: 1984.  First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Jacket has a tear at the crown and smaller tears on the corner. Spine ever so slightly leaning. One dog ear fold on a single page. 279 pages. Very good.
 
Leon Surmelian, one of the hopes of Armenian fiction and a survivor of the genocide, renders Daredevils, an epic of resistance of four generations of warriors in the Armenian highlands, into English. The story was maintained only in oral form longer than any other epic you can think of, and in honor of this Surmelian focuses on what matters most for entertaining an audience: plot, character, and magic. An incredible work, especially if you love when excitement in literary fiction and the storytelling of folk culture meet. 
 
"Golden-Hair-of-Forty-Braids, daughter of the King of Copper City in Chin-ma-chin, saw Sanasar in her dreams and fell in love with him."