| Author/Contributor(s): | Orange, Tommy; Smith, Ali; Alderman, Naomi; Batuman, Elif; Oyeyemi, Helen |
| Publisher: | Catapult |
| Date: | 6/4/2024 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. He’s been hailed a prophet and a diagnostician, and a century after his death, his unique perspective on the anxieties, injustices, and rapidly shifting belief systems of the modern world continues to speak to our contemporary moment.
From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to an apartment search 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 a twentieth-century visionary, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.