Amerika

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.