New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories and brief vignettes about life in Communist East Germany, written between 1969 - 1977. "Some of the stories have the nightmarish quality of Kafka, only they are not nightmares but meticulously noted reality. " Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. 267 pp. Dust jacket art by Gunter Grass. ISBN: 0-151078475.