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Title: Highly recommended
Review: Eight short stories that are, like Ustinov himself was, urbane and witty. Each one satirizes an area of contempory life (as it was in 1958 when these were published) in the Western world. An Hungarian violinist, two Russian authors struggling with communism, a Spanish bullfight that gets completely out of hand, and that had me laughing out loud many times, an English colonel growing plants in the title (and best) story, an English scientist who can put a man on the moon, a tragic Czech couple, an English man who is the voice of a rabbit on a BBC children's program, and four World War II generals in a frozen Russian shack. All are immensely entertaining, unpredictable, very original, and touchingly human. Highly recommended.
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