A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
Ten Kafkaesque Stories
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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 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.
Keith Ridgway
Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London. His previous novels include A Shock (winner of the 2022 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction), Hawthorn & Child, and Animals. He has also been awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger, the O Henry Award, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His books have been acclaimed "ingeniously slippery" (Lucy Scholes, New York Times Book Review), "bleak, hilarious, chilling and hopeful" (Louie Conway, Vanity Fair), and "like Finnegans Wake, only readable" (John Self, London Times).
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Yiyun Li
The acclaimed author of ten books and the Director of Princeton’s Creative Writing Department, Yiyun Li has won a MacArthur, a Guggenheim and the PEN/Faulkner, PEN/Hemingway, and PEN/Jean Stein Awards.
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