A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning bestselling writers and
inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death 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. _____ Franz Kafka lived in Prague from 1883
to 1924. The authors in this book live in cities from Prague to New York and have roots in
places from China to Ireland to Jamaica. They have won prizes including the Women's Prize for
Fiction the American Book Award an Academy Award multiple BAFTAs and the Writers Guild of
America Award and they have been shortlisted for prizes including the Booker Prize and the
Pulitzer Prize.
