# The Trial

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- Book: [The Trial](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/the-trial) ([The Trial.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/the-trial.md))
- Authors: [Franz Kafka](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- Medium: audio
- Length: 8 h 7 min
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- ISBN: 978-02-4142-558-9
- Published: 2019-09-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 8 h 7 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, winner of the 2019 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.