186pp. Price sticker on bottom back cover, else a very good, clean, tight copy Signed by Skvorecky on the half title: " To Inara cordially Joseph Skvorecky 13.10.95 Toronto," Translated by Kaca Polackova-Henly" These two humane and passionate stories--- brilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazis and the Soviets."(Publisher) "Superlative, greatly moving --- These are luminous novellas --- fabulous" (New York Times Book Review)