{"product_id":"amerika-the-man-who-disappeared-paperback","title":"Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFranz Kafka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eHorace Gregory\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation. Kafka began the first of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, \u003cem\u003eAmerika\u003c\/em\u003e remained unfinished, and perhaps, as Klaus Mann suggested, \"necessarily endless.\" Karl Rossman, the youthful hero of the novel, \"a poor boy of seventeen,\" has been banished by his parents to America, following a scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into adventure after misadventure, and experiences multiply as he makes his way into the heart of the country, to The Great Nature Theater of Oklahoma. In creating this new translation, Hofmann, as he explains in his introduction, returned to the manuscript version of the book, restoring matters of substance and detail. Fragments which have never before been presented in English are now reinstated including the book's original \"ending.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e said Hofmann's \"sleek translation does a wonderful job\" and \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e concurred: \"Anything by Kafka is worth reading again, especially in the hands of such a gifted translator as Hofmann.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8.01 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757708083488,"sku":"9780811215695","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/eaa892b64ee28a19cd499ef8c2503376.webp?v=1780109687","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/amerika-the-man-who-disappeared-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}