01168nam a22001217a 4500020001800000082001200018100001400030245006600044260003100110300003200141520085000173650002301023  a9780349146423  a823.01   aLi, Yiyun  aA Cage Went in Search of A Bird: Kafkaesque StoriescYiyun Li  aLondonbAbacus Booksc2024  axiv, 237 Pagesb20x13cmbPB  aA collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his deathFranz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. What happens when his 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 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 a twentieth-century visionary, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.  aEnglish Literature