Naomi Alderman and Elif Batuman and Yiyun Li and Helen Oyeyemi and Keith Ridgway and Ali Smith - A Cage Went In Search Of A Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories

Little, Brown 2024 Paperback, 238pp. 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. (ISBN: 9780349146416). Near Mint.

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