'One is torn between profound pleasure in the novel's execution and wonder at the pain that inspired it.' - Ian McEwan
'A masterpiece.' - Salman Rushdie
This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage, leading into the interior of a theme, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance. It is a book about laughter and forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.
