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First US printing. The author's amazing first novel, set in Prague in 1942: Mr Mundstock is just an ordinary man trying to prepare for an extraordinary fate, as he sees his friends being herded every day into the cattle cars, until he decides to fight off the insanity and fear of German deportation by simulating concentration camp conditions in his small apartment. Disturbing and compassionate. Dust jacket praise from Anthony Burgess who says it "makes a work of art out of the anticipation of evil...Not a scrap of self-pity, no fist shaking, but pathos tempered by stoic humor, and an economy of style." Translated from the Czech by Iris Unwin. 214 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket.(some rubbing and wear to the ends of the dj spine, short closed tear on upper edge of back cover.) .ISBN # 0-224614657 

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