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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Ten Kafkaesque Stories
By Charlie Kaufman and Tommy Orange and Yiyun Li and Naomi Alderman and Ali Smith and Elif Batuman and Helen Oyeyemi and Keith Ridgway
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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 idiosyncratic imagination meets some of... Read More
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

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

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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 idiosyncratic 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349146423

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Abacus

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Becca Rothfeld
  • Introduction by Becca Rothfeld

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 205g

Pages: 256

Collections

Ali Smith Charlie Kaufman Elif Batuman Fiction General Fiction Helen Oyeyemi Keith Ridgway Literary Fiction Naomi Alderman Tommy Orange Yiyun Li

About the Author

The authors in this book have won prizes including the Pulitzer Prize, 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 many others, including the Booker Prize. From countries including China, the USA, Ireland and the UK, and living now in cities around the globe from Prague to New York City, the authors represent how far-reaching Kafka's influence is across the world.

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