Franz Kafka (Author)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.
Michael Hofmann (Translator)
Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. For Penguin he has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann.

The Michael Hofmann translation of Kafka's story of a disorientating transformation, alongside other pioneering stories such as 'Meditation,' 'The Judgement,' 'The Stoker' and 'The Aeroplanes At Brescia.'