#hardcover 346 Pages.- A bawdy tale full of the blackest of humor. The Mandragon is a hermaphrodite, a creature who toys with both sexes; a magician, who reads people's minds and makes both people and objects obey his will; a seer, who travels into the future; and a prophet who brings his tribe back to his home country, Tinieblas, to cure the drought-wracked land. American novelist best known for the Tinieblas trilogy The Prince (1972), The Dissertation (1975), Mandragon (1979) set in an imaginary Central American republic much like Panama, the author's home for many years.