Based on Dovlatov's experiences as a journalist in the Soviet Republic of Estonia, this is an acidly comic picture of ludicrous bureaucratic ineptitude, which obviously still continues.
- ISBN10 0897333535
- ISBN13 9780897333535
- Publish Date 30 August 2005 (first published 10 November 1983)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 January 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Academy Chicago Publishers
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 151
- Language English