A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
by Tommy Orange

ISBN: 9781646222636
Softcover, new

Brief Description:
What happens when Kafka’s idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the
greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out
in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by
prizewinning, bestselling writers. Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of
the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. He’s been
hailed a profit 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.