Cyrus Cyrus

Extravagantly imaginative and acidly satiric... related with a lustrous black humour that counterpoints the unforgiving indictment of justice, religion and society. Publishers Weekly

"A cautionary tale that has thrown caution to the wind. Powerful, energetic and sometimes profound, it succeeds on many levels and accomplishes many things." Independent

"Brilliant – truly funny and gloriously inventive." Sunday Times

My Friend Matt and Hena the Whore

Beautifully written, imbued with enormous integrity and insight." Time Out

"An outstanding second novel, a most harrowing book, into which the author manages to weave a thread of humour which is his most remarkable achievement." The Times

"It would be hard to over-praise the achievement… a truly remarkable novel." Punch

"The novel is deeply touching...his (Zameenzad's) use of simple words and his native description of events is a very powerful device" Dr Tariq Mahmud

Gorgeous White Female

"Zameenzad has produced an artfully constructed novel, playfully imaginative and featuring sentences that have the rhythm and rumble of Manhattan street sounds" Alkarim Jivani. Time Out

"Lahya is an endearing creation, witty and believable." Times Literary Supplement

“A sharp-eyed depiction of male transsexuality.” Vogue

“Witty, wise and consistently entertaining.” Gay Times

"A Fellini-esque parade of characters" Sunday Times

The 13th House

Winner of the "David Higham's award for the best novel of the year" (1987)

"Unusually talented and vigorous" Doris Lessing

"Here is fine narrative wryness of the R. K. Narayan sort." Observer "

"A forceful, moving and confident debut." Times Literary Supplement

"If comedy was ever black, this is." Guardian

Love, Bones, and Water

"Zameenzad again shows his ability to exercise his imagination (including its comic elements) at the heart of situations of injustice, presenting them not at the superficial level of 'issues', but as lived experience... in the "grey man" Zameenzad has created a symbol of transcendent and redemptive suffering" Adam Lively, Independent.

"A writer of great originality. Love Bones and Water is a beautifully written, totally compelling, energetic narrative. It brings together tough satire and an unforced lyricism to remarkable effect" Judy Cooke, Guardian

"Quite unlike anything else recently published. Love, Bones and Water is a wry political fantasy and a moving evocation of childhood innocence, remarkable for its clarity." Patrick Gale, Daily Telegraph

Pepsi And Maria

"A beautifully crafted, multi-faceted book, at once a highly dramatic and gripping thriller, a vivid reimagining of the cliched Magical Realism genre and a searing indictment of the ways in which selfrighteous moral certainty lead to a racheting-up of cruelty and inhumanity " The New Internationalist.

"With…its short, action-driven chapters and dynamic concrete language (and, of course, that gritty Third World setting)…If you can imagine a hybrid of City of God and The Wizard of Oz, then Pepsi and Maria comes close. And that, in its own weird way, must count as a crossover triumph…" Boyd Tonkin, The Independent.

"In this remarkable novel, the children's zest for life and the beauty of the world around them ensure that their dramatic and poetic story, while dealing with the appalling reality of street children's life, is uplifting to the spirit." Tarlochan Gata-Aura Word Power