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

A collection of brandnew short stories written by prizewinning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka published to commemorate the centenary of his deathChosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New EuropeanFranz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentiethcentury literature. 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 mindbending, 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. | Ali Smith A Cage Went in Search of a Bird : Ten Kafkaesque Stories Hardcover