Originally published: Oundle : Serendip Publishers, 1998

"Revised edition published in 2000"--T.p. verso

Set in a closed desert kingdom in our own time, Mirage tells the story of Sayeed, a good but unexceptional man. He finds love with a woman who might have been beyond his reach, had not widowhood and misfortune brought her within it. The scene for Sayeed’s marriage is set with unpretending tenderness: the city hospital where he works, the shanty town he inhabits, his brother’s village home, the struggle to make a decent life for his new wife and her child.