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Amerika: The Missing Person by Franz Kafka

From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his first--and funniest--novel.

Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.

Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914. But it wasn't until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor, edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Amerika.
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ISBN 13 9780805211610
ISBN 10 0805211616
Title Amerika: The Missing Person
Author Franz Kafka
Series The Schocken Kafka Library
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Schocken Books
Year published 2011-08-16
Number of pages 336
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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