01216nam a22001457a 4500 68062 68062 9780349146423 823.01 Li, Yiyun A Cage Went in Search of A Bird: Kafkaesque Stories Yiyun Li London Abacus Books 2024 xiv, 237 Pages 20x13cm PB A 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. English Literature BK 0 0 0 823_010000000000000_L612C_2024 0 FIC 66414 GPL GPL GEN 2025-12-08 CRV/245/GT/GPLM 2245.00 823.01 L612C 2024 70571. 2025-12-08 BK