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

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Published: 01/05/2025
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'Kafka himself would love it' The i
'As captivating as it is thought-provoking' Glamour
'Unsettling and uneasy' Daily Mail
'Glorious' Harper's Bazaar

A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka

What happens when Kafka's idionsyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? In this collection of stories, commissioned to commemorate one hundred years since his death, ten of our most celebrated international writers take ideas of Kafka's - motifs from his stories, titles of his famous works, or unfinished fragments left behind in his Blue Octavo Notebooks - and run with them to make something new.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349146423
Number of pages: 256
Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 22 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

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

Unsettling and uneasy ... brimful of the dark claustrophobia that made Kafka's work so startling and suffocating - Daily Mail

This collection is quite the achievement ... both ridiculous and brilliant. Thank goodness it exists. Kafka himself would love it - i-paper

A glorious new collection of short stories inspired by the angst-ridden absurdism of the Czech writer - Harper's Bazaar

A kaleidoscope of Kafkaesque tales woven by a brilliant and diverse array of renowned and talented authors ... Readers are treated to a rich tapestry of narratives, each as captivating as it is thought-provoking - Glamour

Mind-bending and consistently enjoyable ... A Cage Went in Search of a Bird is a roller coaster ride that will delight the adventuresome reader ... It's easy to imagine Kafka paging through these varied and deeply imagined tales and nodding in admiration - BookPage

Offer narratives of baffling circumscriptions, illnesses, miscommunications, and technologies. But the stories also make space for potentiality, with characters witnessing change or glimpsing future possibilities - putting Kafka's turn-of-the-century disillusionment into conversation with our own - Poets & Writers

A boon for Kafkaheads everywhere - The Millions

Eerie, darkly comic, vertiginously varied ... a refreshing range of responses to the absurdist nature of modern life - Financial Times

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