In Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce's last and most difficult book, Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Choudhry shows in this fascinating study that Joyce may truly be said to have become Europasianized. His study of Finnegan's Wake's roots in the Koran, in Hinduism, in the Thousand and One Nights and in Persian vocabulary and thought is at once a definitive work in itself, and a source of inspiration for future Joyce scholars and students. Dr. Choudhry differs from his predecessors in being an expert in the languages and cultures of the Subcontinent, but like any good Joycean he is an incarnation of the ideal reader possessed by an ideal insomnia. His study of Finnegan's Wake's roots in the Koran, in Hinduism, in the Thousand and One Nights and in Persian vocabulary and thought is at once a definitive work in itself, and a source of inspiration for future Joyce scholars and students.