# A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

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- Book: [A Cage Went in Search of a Bird](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith/a-cage-went-in-search-of-a-bird) ([A Cage Went in Search of a Bird.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith/a-cage-went-in-search-of-a-bird.md))
- Authors: [Ali Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/ali-smith)
- Publisher: little_brown_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0556-192-1
- Published: 2024-05-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## 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.