Author:Franz Kafka,Idris Parry,J. A. Underwood
The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.’s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his three great novels, draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete.
A courageous self-assessment... interesting and pivotal... done with sincerity and intelligence
—— Times Literary SupplementPeter Carey, Garcia Marquez, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Andre Brink must be considered with that class of writer
—— The GuardianOne of South Africa's most eloquent literary voices
—— Libby Brooks , GuardianOne of South Africa's most distinguished writers and a key figure in the modernisation of the Afrikaans novel
—— ObserverThe best novel is a book that, to my shame, I have only just read. Visiting Vienna earlier in the year, I realised how little I knew about the Austro-Hungarian empire. So I read Joseph Roth's 1932 book The Radetzky March (Penguin Classics) and, as soon as I finished reading it, I read it all over again.
—— Chris Patten , New Statesman'Delights, amuses, moves and angers you with the lightest of touches. It is, as might be said of Cadence herself, a small masterpiece'
—— Simon Callow , Vogue'Wonderful, funny, poignant and gutsy...you can feel the author's huge and hurt and loving heart beat on every page'
—— Anne Lamott , Mademoiselle'An intensely enjoyable novel about friendship and prejudice: the dialogue is word perfect, the psycology laser fine, and there are some terrific jokes... but no synopsis can do justice to this glorious book'
—— David Profumo , Weekend Telegraph
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