Reviews

"[It] cries out to be read and enjoyed by millions of ordinary readers. It has the potential to become one of the most popular Russian classics, for its humor is international, and its human meaning as profound and touching as what we have come to expect from Solzhenitsyn." --Times Literary Supplement
"This extremely funny story is subversive because it illustrates what Marx never understood: that even under socialism human nature remains an unregenerate constant." --Time