Amerika Anthony Burgess guiding us from Mount Olympus

guiding us from Mount Olympus to the depths of Hades

showing how Germany rushed headlong into destroying itself and an entire continent

In just over a year Thriller became the best-selling album of all time

Yet In a Silent Way continues to bedazzle

of the geometries of human relationships

Amerika Anthony Burgess guiding us from Mount OlympusA lyrical translation of Kafka's first novel a menacing allegory of modern life. Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished) is infused with a quite un Kafkaesque blitheness and