A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
Ten Kafkaesque Stories
by Tommy Orange, Helen Oyeymi, Yiyun Li, Elif Batuman, et. al.
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Pub Date Jun 04 2024 | Archive Date May 24 2024
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Description
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.
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.
Advance Praise
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR A CAGE WENT IN SEARCH OF A BIRD
An Esquire UK Best Book of 2024
A Guardian Most-Anticipated Book of the Year
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR A CAGE WENT IN SEARCH OF A BIRD
An Esquire UK Best Book of 2024
A Guardian Most-Anticipated Book of the Year
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EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781646222636 |
PRICE | $17.95 (USD) |
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