ISBN-13: 9780140184822 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 96 str.
Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts around Berlin, observing his acquaintances, but finds he can discover very little about his own life from the opinions of his distracted fellow-emigres.