
"A more succesful blend of allegory and social realism would be hard to find...seethes with life and lingers in the mind. Considered with his other impressive works, it places him in the front rank of world writers". -- Library Journal
"A journey along Ghose's enchanted byways richly repays the investment". -- The Pittsburgh Press (Don Bueno) "...I've fallen into some pretty good company -- Zulfikar Ghose, Borges, Cortazar, Mircea Eliade, Italo Calvino, Stanislaw Lem -- some of the world's best writers of and about the fantastic in literature... These writers slip effortlessly beneath the surface and bring back pearls of rare beauty from the dreamy depths of the unconscious". John Strausbaugh, City Paper (Baltimore) (The Triple Mirror of the Self) "From the first page, Ghose is performing as storyteller and entertainer... While Ghose...shares the tone of witty exasperation which so often surfaces in the work of Sa Less