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The Castle

By: Franz Kafka
Narrated by: Allan Corduner
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A land-surveyor, known only as K., arrives at a small village permanently covered in snow and dominated by a castle to which access seems permanently denied. K.'s attempts to discover why he has been called constantly run up against the peasant villagers, who are in thrall to the absurd bureaucracy that keeps the castle shut, and the rigid hierarchy of power among the self-serving bureaucrats themselves. But in this strange wilderness, there is passion, tenderness and considerable humour. Darkly bizarre, this complex book was the last novel by one of the 20th century's greatest and most influential writers.

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Public Domain (P)2010 Naxos Audiobooks Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Village
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