A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781646222636)

What happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers.

Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. He's been hailed a profit and a diagnostician, and a century after his death, his unique perspective on the anxieties, injustices, and rapidly shifting belief systems of the modern world continues to speak to our contemporary moment.

From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to an apartment search 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.

Author: Tommy Orange
ISBN-10: 1646222636
ISBN-13: 9781646222636
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2024
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/29/2024