Amerika: The Missing Person
by Franz Kafka
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Clean pages, tight binding, clea/Illustrated dust jacket over clo
- ISBN 10
- 0805242112
- ISBN 13
- 9780805242119
- Seller
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Slingerlands, New York, United States
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Synopsis
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent.Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished), can be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it is also infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness and sunniness, brought to life in this lyrical translation that returns to the original manuscript of the book.
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- Bookseller
- HGG Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0805242112
- Title
- Amerika: The Missing Person
- Author
- Franz Kafka
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Clean pages, tight binding, clea
- Jacket Condition
- Illustrated dust jacket over clo
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0805242112
- ISBN 13
- 9780805242119
- Publisher
- Schocken
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008-11-18
- Size
- 5x1x8
- X weight
- 48 oz
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