A ""documentary novel"", the latest of Estonian author Mati Unt's deadpan and playful works to be translated into English, about the little-known period in the life of Bertolt Brecht when the writer - having fled Nazi Germany - became stuck in Finland awaiting his visa for the United States. As Brecht, the avowed communist, continues the pleasures of pre-war bourgeois life, the Soviet Union is not-so-quietly annexing Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Both affectionate and irreverent, this is a movi...