The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Subtitle: Revised Edition
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: March 3, 1987
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780140096934
First sentence: In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of thousands of citizens massed in Old Town Square.