It is a very funny book indeed. However, this is exactly my main problem with it. Under the Frog lacks any tragic touch that an author who actually lived through the events in the novel, would have used. I am not whining or being snob (for a change, haha); I just know, as I am from that country and I did live through half (!) of the previous regime (I am hesitating to call it "communist" regime as it was not communist). My parents and their friends saw everything Fisher is talking about, and I saw everything that those events did to them. And boy, it was not funny. Tragicomical and/or bittersweet - yes. But not funny, I swear.
Nevertheless, it is an easy read, a pageturner. What else can I wish at the end of my trimester?
Too bad I am Central-European.
