Short Fiction and fable. Displaying the astonishing range of imaginative power and formal invention he is justly acclaimed for, and a subtly seductive prose, Ghose lays bare the multiple layers of human experience in settings a diverse as South America, India and Pakistan, and Islamic Spain. These stories are to be savoured as much for their rich structure and wondeful language as for the depth of their revelations. Zulfikar Ghose has ranked with and outranked several of the best English writers in England and America--Review of Contemporary Fiction. Ghose is the author of ten novels, five volumes of poetry, four books of criticism, and an autobiography.