Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Series: Faber Essentials
Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780571203871
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.