A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present day. Grimus is a parallel form of life and conjuring of an alternative society, thunderous dan touching. Only if you were Grimus would you be fully conscious of what was happening on Calf Island.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. According to legend, then -according to the polished gossip of the ancients at the paan shop-Mian Abdullah owed his downfall to his purchase.