Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text

Kafka at his happiest. An imagined land where even hardships evoke a giddy feeling.

The ideosyncratic perception and the innocence of Kafka's fantasy are profoundly apparent in The Amerika....

It's a shame this book never got properly finished. I would have liked to know how he wound it up. There were some beautifully written scenes, but others that were a bit leaden and dull.

Fabulously written. The master of the perfect sentence. But it was a little inconclusive and I was a bit baffled in places. It's such a shame it never got properly finished.