A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death
*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European*
Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his work and use it to spark something new?
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 the visionary imagination of a writer working one hundred years ago, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.
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- Authors:
- Smith, Ali|Orange, Tommy|Alderman, Naomi|Oyeyemi, Helen|Ridgway, Keith|Li, Yiyun|Kaufman, Charlie|Batuman, Elif|Ross, Leone
- Year Published:
- 2024
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9780349146409
- Number of Pages:
- 256
- Publication Date:
- 30/05/2024
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780349146409