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'Unmissable, combines extremes of comedy and seriousness, plus pathos, slapstick, sex and violence...' -- INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
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**'Short, sharp and eccentric . sophisticated, thoughtprovoking and pithy' -- SPECTATOR
Devastating... a superb book and a magnificent author' -- INDEPENDENT
*A brilliant Kafka-esque novel about one man's resistance to a totalitarian regime (Czechoslovakia).
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0701137738
- ISBN 13 9780701137731
- BindingHardcover
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