Baking with Kafka

Name: Baking with Kafka
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781786891501
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By Tom Gauld

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Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld is a clever and witty collection of cartoons that explores the intersection of literature, art, and popular culture. Known for his distinctive, minimalist style, Gauld offers humorous takes on the life of a writer, the pitfalls of publishing, and the quirks of literary tropes. Each cartoon serves as a standalone piece, bringing light-hearted laughter to both book lovers and casual readers.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate clever and witty cartoons that playfully combine literary references with everyday absurdities. It appeals to those who have a love for books, literature, and a good sense of humour, offering delightful satire that pokes fun at the quirks of the literary world.

Baking with Kafka

The new collection from multi-award-winning cartoonist Tom Gauld - the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere.

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In Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld asks the questions no one else dares ask about civilisation as we know it.

- How do you get published during a skeleton apocalypse?
- What was the secret of Kafka's lemon drizzle cake?
- And what plot possibilities does the exploding e-cigarette offer modern mystery writers?

A riotous collection of laugh-out-loud cartoons in his signature style, Baking with Kafka reaffirms Gauld's position as a first-rate cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.

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Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld is celebrated for its brilliantly off-the-wall cartoons and clever literary humour. Reviews praise it as a collection of single-page pieces channeling a wry and sometimes macabre aesthetic, with each cartoon offering a unique take on literary themes. Widely regarded as precise and wryly hilarious, Gauld's work is noted for its economical art and dry, incisive humour.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781786891501

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 September 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Illustration: colour illustrations throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 211.0mm

Height: 157.0mm

Weight: 470g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Fiction Humour Tom Gauld

About the Author

Tom Gauld was born in 1976 and grew up in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He is a cartoonist and illustrator and his work is regularly published in the The Guardian, The New York Times and New Scientist. He has created a number of comic books. He lives in London with his family.

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