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<p><b>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</b><br> <br> <b>*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the <i>Guardian,</i> the <i>Financial Times</i>, the <i>Daily Mail</i>, <i>New Statesman</i>, <i>Esquire</i> and the <i>New European</i>*<br></b><br> 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?<br> <br> 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.</p>