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A Friend of Kafka

(1969)
And Other Stories
A collection of stories by

 
 
This is probably the finest collection of short stories by a writer whose name has been linked (by both The Times and the Guardian) with that of Tolstoy. He writes with equal assurance of a professor of history, a coal-heaver, a Bohemian writer, a rich widow or a chimney sweep: and somehow, one and all, they seem to tread a precarious path between the supernatural world and the inviting pit of material reality.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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