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From one of our most thought-provoking and admired writers, a brilliant, beautiful, and sometimes heartbreaking group of stories based on a circle of real people who are held together by love of their friend Franz Kafka. The sequence opens with Max Brod, Kafkas friend and literary executor, telling us about Kafka and Dora Diamant, their love growing stronger even as Kafka is dying of tuberculosis. Kafka talks with Brod about forgiving the Angel of Death, but Brod wonders if Franz is really talking about Brods forgiving Kafka for the predicament hes put him in, having instructed Max to prove his love for Franz by burning the work Brod most admires: Franzs unpublished stories. Next there is a brief interludeperhaps a lost Kafka story, or is it a story about a lost Kafka story which is perhaps itself masquerading as one of the things that in anger Brod neither burned nor published? The story that follows tells of Doras marriage to the militant German Communist Lusk Lask and his attempt to break the hold of the angelic Kafka on his wifes imagination by giving her a daughter. We watch this family in its move to the Soviet Union to escape Hitler, and as Dora and her daughter flee the Sov

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Author

Cantor, Jay

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307778437

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.61 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14