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      A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories

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      A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death

      A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - publis...

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      Product ID:9780349146409
      Product Form:Hardback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
      Subtitle:Ten Kafkaesque Stories
      Authors:Author: Ali Smith, Yiyun Li, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Leone Ross, Keith Ridgway, Helen Oyeyemi, Elif Batuman, Charlie Kaufman
      Page Count:256
      Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death

      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.


      Imprint Name:Abacus
      Publisher Name:Little, Brown Book Group
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2024-05-30

      Additional information

      Weight388 g
      Dimensions144 × 223 × 26 mm