A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening & visionary short fiction Strange beasts night terrors absurd bureaucrats & sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka Some are less than a page long others more substantial; all were unpublished in his lifetime These matchless short works range from the gleeful miniature horror ' Little Fable' to the off-kilter humour of ' Investigations of a Dog' & from the elaborate waking nightmare of ' Building the Great Wall of China' to the creeping unease of ' The Burrow' where a nameless creature's labyrinthine hiding place turns into a trap of fear & paranoia