A Cage Went In Search Of A Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories by Naomi Alderman and Elif Batuman and Yiyun Li and Helen Oyeyemi and Keith Ridgway and Ali Smith
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. 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. This 2024 Little, Brown Paperback is in near mint condition. ISBN: 9780349146416 SKU: 1582476 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.
