A cage went in search of a bird

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Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. What happens when his idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by a twentieth-century visionary, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.

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‘Kafka himself would love it’ The i
‘As captivating as it is thought-provoking’ Glamour
‘Unsettling and uneasy’ Daily Mail
‘Glorious’ Harper’s Bazaar

A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka

What happens when Kafka’s idionsyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? In this collection of stories, commissioned to commemorate one hundred years since his death, ten of our most celebrated international writers take ideas of Kafka’s – motifs from his stories, titles of his famous works, or unfinished fragments left behind in his Blue Octavo Notebooks – and run with them to make something new.

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Weight 0.205 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.6 × 2.2 cm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

256

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

823.0108092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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