New York: William H. Morrow, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by this author who was born in India, now lives in the United States. One reviewer called it a "deceptively simple novel about a deceptively simple man. . . the greater his fame, the angrier Sonalal becomes at the world's incomprehension of the gravity of his crime. As his character seeks desperately for solace first in medicine, then in magic, and eventually in the arms of his favorite prostitute, Nigam limns a compassionate portrait of one man's crisis of faith and despair against a backdrop of modern-day India." SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-688158099.