The difficult adventures of a man arriving in a city where he doesn't speak the language, doesn't understand anybody...
It's interesting, but the majority of the book lists his various ways of trying to learn the language, and at some point this becomes a bit cumbersome.
Never a true explanation is given. It is not a stretch to consider it a parable of (modern) every day life, with its chaos, its mis- and nonunderstanding, but it failed to truly grasp me.
