Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman

A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Ten Kafkaesque Stories
Mitarbeit:Rothfeld, Becca

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abacus / Little, Brown Book Group
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 928917
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9780349146416
• ISBN-10: 0349146411
• Artikelnr.: 68467911

Autorenporträt

Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross, Joshua Cohen

Rezensionen

This inspired anthology demonstrates the enduring influence of Franz Kafka's fatalistic worldview and mordant humour ... These stories will do the trick for the Kafka-curious and diehard fans alike Publishers Weekly