America

Franz Kafka

Translation: Michael Hofmann
Original title: Amerika
Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general · Classic fiction: literary and general

2012: first published in English
German: original language
1: edition in English
—: pages

The story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.

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