 It has remained in print ever since, and has become a cult classic.The novel, including the title, is written in modified Pidgin and is considered dialectically authentic while still readable by non-Pidgin readers.His second novel, "Five Years on a Rock" (1994) is a prequel to the first novel; it covers the years 1914 to 1935, while "All I Asking for" goes from 1935 to 1943.