This novel was published in the United States in 1945, and even when "Amber", which came out in the same year, was taking the world by storm, it reached a sales record so big that it immediately ranked after "Amber" among the "best-selling" novels. It was reprinted in subsequent years and translated into all the world's languages.

The feelings of a man who is trapped in the jaws of love, crushed by jealousy, who still loves his beloved despite everything, who tolerates her flaws, are described in this novel with the author's wonderful style.