Despite being the first and only novel to date, the Australian pop singer Nick Cave, a founding member of the legendary rock band "The Birthday Party" and his current band "The Bad Seeds" plus musical collaborator of German director Wim Wenders on his film "Wings of Desire"; Euchrid history, with its epic biblical passages, His miracles, visions, obsessive digressions, is a deeply acrimonious, macabre comedy brilliantly engineered and amazingly written.