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Kafka's Last Trial

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20 September 2018
304 pages
9781509836727
Imprint: Picador

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A literary battle that became Kafkaesque . . . remarkable . . . I warmly recommend this deeply absorbing book.
[A] fascinating and forensically scrupulous account of the history of Kafka’s papers.
Balint fascinatingly examines how much was at stake for Germany and Israel in claiming Kafka as their man . . . [He] has minutely researched every twist and turn of this politico-legal saga, and tells it with even-handed seriousness.
Balint’s account of this saga is both a fine journalistic telling of that half century of courtroom drama, and a revealing examination of the writer and the relationships at its heart . . . Balint brings all of these forces and arguments to vivid life.