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

• | Author: Ali Smith, Yiyun Li, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Leone Ross, Keith Ridgway, Helen Oyeyemi, Elif Batuman, Charlie Kaufman
• | Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780349146423
• | ISBN-10: 034914642X