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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Gardners Books
Publication date January 25, 2007
Pages 240
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780141188386
ISBN-10 0141188383
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $16.85
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Summary
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. This novel can be read as an allegory of modern life.
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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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Hardcover
from New Directions (October 1, 2002)
9780811215138 | details & prices | 240 pages | 5.75 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $23.95
About: A new translation of Kafka's unfinished 1927 novel in which young Karl Rossman, banished to America, embarks on a series of misadventures during which he sees the nation from a range of perspectives before landing at the Great Nature Theater of Oklahoma.
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from Gardners Books (January 25, 2007)
9780141188386 | details & prices | 240 pages | List price $16.85
About: Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal.

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