New York: Viking, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic work of magic realism by this Pakistani author, his fourth novel but only the second to be published in the US. "Extravagantly imaginative and acidly satiric. .. Its hero, Cyrus Cyrus, is so utterly disenfranchised that he has no real surname, and merely repeats his given name when asked to identify himself. Convicted of the murders of three children (two of them his own), he narrates an autobiography teeming with 'images of sex and survival, death and after-death, madness and genius' from his prison cell in Britain. . . a brilliant work" (Publisher's Weekly) 577 pp. ISBN: 0-670832235.