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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories

Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross, Joshua Cohen

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Anthologies (non-poetry), Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories

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

'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 idionsyncratic 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.

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Praise for A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories

  • This collection is quite the achievement ... both ridiculous and brilliant. Thank goodness it exists. Kafka himself would love it - i-paper

  • A kaleidoscope of Kafkaesque tales woven by a brilliant and diverse array of renowned and talented authors ... Readers are treated to a rich tapestry of narratives, each as captivating as it is thought-provoking - Glamour

  • Unsettling and uneasy ... brimful of the dark claustrophobia that made Kafka's work so startling and suffocating - Daily Mail

  • A glorious new collection of short stories inspired by the angst-ridden absurdism of the Czech writer - Harper's Bazaar

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