**From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the
greatest writers of the twentieth century, his first--and
funniest--novel.
**
Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an
incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America.
Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young
Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange
escapades, and picaresque adventures.
Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The
Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914.
But it wasn't until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod,
Kafka's friend and literary executor, edited the unfinished manuscript
and published it as Amerika.