Mordant satire on life in Lithuania during the corrupt and stultifying Brezhnev years. Gavelis's story of how a good and honest man, not inclined to challenge the regime, could find no place for himself, whilst many who believed in nothing had no problems. A book full of ideas and observations.
A masterly critique of life in the late Soviet Union, full of ideas, doubts and insightful observations on human behavior borne along on a helter-skelter plot.
