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Amerika
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Amerika (1927) (edit title/settings)

or, The Man Who Disappeared

by Franz Kafka (Author) (edit contributors)

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Text: English (translation) Original Language: German

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As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself a child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbour of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illumine the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before.

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1. The Stoker
2. Uncle Jacob
3. A Country House Near New York
4. The Road to Rameses
5. The Hotel Occidental
6. The Case of Robinson
7. A Refuge
8. The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma

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This is book 688 of 1271 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Tarka the Otter, and followed by The Castle.

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  1. Franz Kafka (Author)

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Original Language: German
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Publication Date: 1927
ISBN: 081121513X
Page Count: 240

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