The Clown Said No

Circus performers break the bondage of the big top and strike out on their own in The Clown Said No by Mischa Damjan, trans. by Anthea Bell. Damjan, whose real name was Dimitrije Sidjanski, was the co-founder of the Swiss publisher Nord-S d Verlag, and this was the first book the house published, in 1962. Christa Unzner provides new, psychologically complex illustrations. (Apr.)