Goodreads asked Bruce Paley:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Bruce Paley Back in 1997 read an article in The Guardian about a Hungarian dwarf troupe that had survived two world wars, the Nazis and the communists, but couldn't survive the financial dictates of capitalism. The idea stayed with me, and not long afterwards I began working on the book, creating all the characters and situations, revising it over the years and doing numerous drafts until I was satisfied with the one I put on Amazon.

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