The fifth head of Cerberus
Subtitle: three novellas
By: Gene Wolfe.
Publisher: Quartet Books
Published: 1975
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Fiction in English.
Description: From the back cover Ace Books paperback September 1981:

Sainte Croix and Sainte Anne... sister planets where the lives of humans and aliens merge like dreams and twist into nightmare.  A haunting, lyrical, finally chilling triptych:

-- John March, Terran anthropologist, searches for the truth about the vanished aboriginal culture of the sister planets.

-- Sandwalker, an abo child, searches for Eastwind, the long-lost twin brother he has met only in dreams.

-- Number 5, reared in a Sainte Croix brothel, searches for his identity in a world of genetically engineered aliens clothed in human bodies -- and human memories.
Notes: This collection originally published, New York , Scribner, 1972 ; London , Gollancz, 1973.