The mysterious murder at the Bombay Duckworth Sports Club was neither the first nor the last link in a chain of ominous events. The roots of this villainy grew so deeply into the past that the main character had to rethink his entire life in order to get to the origins of the tragedy. And in this life there was so much: circus dwarfs and elephants, brilliant studies in Vienna and carefully secret writing of scripts for Bollywood hits, and even a mysterious night bite in the leg that contributed to religious conversion. The novel is published in a new translation.