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Amerika: the Missing Person : A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text by Franz Kafka (2011, Trade Paperback)

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Product Description : From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century his firstand funniestnovelAmerika 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 adventuresKafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene The Missing Person in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914 But it wasnt until 1927 three years after his death that Max Brod Kafkas friend and literary executor edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Amerika