# A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

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- Authors: [Ali Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2024-05-30

## Description

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death *Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European* Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his work and use it to spark something new? From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by the visionary imagination of a writer working one hundred years ago, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.

## Editions

### A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4914-642-3
- Published: 2025-05-01
- Language: en_GB

### A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

- Publisher: random_house_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 979-82-1706-661-2
- Published: 2024-06-04
- Language: en_US

### A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

- Publisher: catapult
- ISBN: 978-16-4622-263-6
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2024-06-04
- Language: en_US

### A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

- Publisher: little_brown_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0556-192-1
- Published: 2024-05-30
- Language: en_GB

### A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4914-639-3
- Published: 2024-05-30
- Language: en_GB

### A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4914-640-9
- Published: 2024-05-30
- Language: en_GB