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Amerika: The Missing Person

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Amerika: The Missing Person

by Franz Kafka

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  • Paperback
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ISBN 10
0805242112
ISBN 13
9780805242119
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Schocken Books, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. UNCORRECTED BOUND GALLEYS. As such, the book lacks page numbers, but 320-page length stated. A new translation, based on the restored text; translated and with a preface by Mark Harman. Includes a biographical chronology. Trade paperback-sized, scant wear, pages bright inside and on edges. Underscoring/mark observed on one page, in the translator's preface.

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
Berthoff Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
AEB-426
Title
Amerika: The Missing Person
Author
Franz Kafka
Format/Binding
Soft cover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0805242112
ISBN 13
9780805242119
Publisher
Schocken Books
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2008
Keywords
MARK HARMAN, UNCORRECTED BOUND GALLEYS, NOVEL
Bookseller catalogs
German literature in translation;

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