A Cage Went In Search Of A Bird

A Collection Of Brand-new Short Stories Written By Prize-winning, Bestselling Writers And Inspired By Kafka - Published To Commemorate The Centenary Of His Death *chosen As A 2024 Highlight In The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire And The New European* Franz Kafka Is Widely Regarded As One Of The Great Geniuses Of Twentieth-century 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 Mind-bending, 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.