---

Award-winning graphic novelist Peter Kuper presents a mesmerising interpretation of fourteen iconic Kafka short stories.

---

Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the master´s dark humour, Kuper adapted the stories over the years to plumb their deeper truths. Kuper´s style deliberately evokes Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel, contemporaries of Kafka whose wordless novels captured much of the same claustrophobia and mania as Kafka´s tales. Working from new translations of the classic texts, Kuper has reimagined these iconic stories for the twenty-first century, using setting and perspective to comment on contemporary issues like civil rights and homelessness. Long-time lovers of Kafka will appreciate Kuper´s innovative interpretations, while Kafka novices will discover a haunting introduction to some of the great writer´s most beguiling stories, including "A Hunger Artist, "In The Penal Colony, and "The Burrow.

---

Peter Kuper is a visiting professor at Harvard University. He frequently contributes cartoons to The New Yorker and is the illustrator of Mad magazine´s "Spy vs. Spy." His previous graphic novel, Ruins, won an Eisner Award.

---