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

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

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Published 1st May 2025
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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.

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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
by Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Becca Rothfeld, Leone Ross and Joshua Cohen

ISBN
9780349146423

Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group

Binding
Paperback

Publication date
May 1, 2025

Dimensions
19.6cm x 12.6cm x 2.2cm

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