# America

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- Book: [America](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/america) ([America.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/america.md))
- Authors: [Franz Kafka](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Michael Hofmann
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4815-654-2
- Published: 2012-08-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.