Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Classics Ishiguro Kazuo Onstage he plays the mentalist

Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife)

longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication

She was young

self-loathing catalogue of guilt

sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world

Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Classics Ishiguro Kazuo Onstage he plays the mentalistA brilliant new translation of Kafkas best known work, published for the 125th anniversary of his birth This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafkas works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity;