Some may call this a novel of despair. Yet it is shot through with a fierce and passionate faith in the value of life – at whatever level and at whatever price – for its own sake. Some may call it grotesque. Yet it contains passages of lyrical beauty. Strange, imaginative, touching, it is a work of outstanding originality and brilliance."
In English only two edition exist. The first was printed 1966, London, the second, the American edition, from 1967.
It was translated various languages, for example this novel is extremely popular in Hungary.
This is his second novel. His first, The Raging Moon, was a moving novel about the love of two cripples