Publisher:
Random House UK: 1987
A crisp clean first edition, no markings throughout: If Jonathan Swift were alive today and had the bad luck to live in one of t he most poverty-plagued and politically turbulent countries--Pakistan--he m ight have written this mordantly surrealistic novel. Sahid, a trod-upon vic tim of his wife, his employers, the government and society in general, beli eves he has found the fulfillment of his life's dream when he rents a house at what he thinks is a bargain price. But there's an evil power about the place, or so everybody says; and everybody seems to be right. Zahid's close friend is assassi...
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