A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
(Hardback)
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Paperback
Published: 29th July 2025
Paperback
Published: 28th May 2024
Hardback
Published: 29th October 2024
Publishing Details
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
By (Author) Ali Smith
By (author) Tommy Orange
By (author) Naomi Alderman
By (author) Helen Oyeyemi
By (author) Keith Ridgway
By (author) Yiyun Li
By (author) Charlie Kaufman
By (author) Elif Batuman
Introduction by Becca Rothfeld
By (author) Leone Ross
Little, Brown Book Group
Abacus
29th October 2024
30th May 2024
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Short stories
813.008
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 140mm, Height 218mm, Spine 28mm
389g
Description
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
*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European*Franz 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 newFrom 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.Author Bio
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.
