The back of the book suggested a prototype of the X-Men, describing a team of superhumans with powers such as telepathy, telekinesis and teleportation ( the three Ts).

But the real story is nothing at all like any superhero comic I can remember reading It's a mysterious and unusual book, presented in three very distinct parts that don't immediately reveal how they fit together.

Reading it I wasn't sure what it was actually about until the very end, where its denouement unexpectedly anticipates Nabokov's Transparent Things (or perhaps Invitation to a Beheading, which was published in the 1930s but not in English until 1959).