A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories (PRE-ORDER)

DATE OF RELEASE: 1 MAY 2025

'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.

Paperback 
Publication: 1 May 2025, Little Brown 
ISBN: 9780349146423
Extent: 256 pages