The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780060932145
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.