Publication

2002-06-18 - Random House

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100375507876
  • ISBN-139780375507878
  • Goodreads1063619
  • LibraryThing7742
  • Open LibraryOL7426048M

First Sentence

THE DECEPTIVELY SIMPLY RULES OF THE GAME SINCERITY, AS played late one Friday afternoon in May 1990 on the terrace of the Cafe Gerbeaud in Budapest, Hungary: 1. Players (in this case, five) arrange themselves around a small cafe table and impatiently await their order, haphazardly recorded by a sulky and distracted waitress with amusing boots: dollhouse cups of espresso, dense blocks of cake glazed with Art Nouveau swirls of translucent caramel, skimpy sandwiches dusted red-orange with the national spice, glass thimbles of sweet or bitter or smoky liqueurs, tumblers of bubbling water ostensibly hunted and captured from virgin springs high in the Carpathian Mountains.

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Other Editions

  • Prague: A NovelRandom House2002-06-18

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