"One of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe. this brilliant book must be read."--New York Review of Books

A clerk at the State Bank begins to notice that something strange is going on-- bank employees are stuffing their pockets with money every day, only to have it taken every evening by the security guards who search the employees and confiscate the cash. But, there's a discrepancy between what is being confiscated and what is being returned to the bank, and our hero is beginning to fear that a secret circulation is developing, one that could undermine...