Ali Smith: A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
Buch
- Ten Kafkaesque Stories
- Little, Brown Book Group, 05/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780349146416
- Bestellnummer: 11633257
- Umfang: 256 Seiten
- Gewicht: 260 g
- Maße: 216 x 135 mm
- Stärke: 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.5.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his deathFranz 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.
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Franz Kafka lived in Prague from 1883 to 1924.
The authors in this book live in cities from Prague to New York and have roots in places from China to Ireland to Jamaica. They have won prizes including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the American Book Award, an Academy Award, multiple BAFTAs and the Writers Guild of America Award; and they have been shortlisted for prizes including the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize.