{"product_id":"9780349146409","title":"A Cage Went in Search of a Bird : Ten Kafkaesque Stories","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Ali Smith\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 30 May 2024 by Little, Brown Book Group (Abacus) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e144 x 223 x 26mm | 388g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56153590235461,"sku":"9780349146409","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780349146409.jpg?v=1762272070","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780349146409","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}