A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories - Tommy Orange

An anthology of brand new short stories by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka nFranz 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. n nWhat happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today?

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.n