Kafka in Brontëland

Kafka in Brontëland and other stories is a new book written by Tamar Yellin and published by The Toby Press.

According to the publisher's press release:

This collection, available for the first time in book form, exhibits the writing ability and story craftsmanship that prompted critics to describe Yellin's writing as "warm and engrossing."

These thirteen stories by the author who critics across the literary world have come to love, address universal themes of yearning and displacement, love, loss and the struggle to belong. A latter-day Jewish Odysseus spends his life planning an intricate journey to the Promised Land, while an English father stranded in London mourns for his faraway Italian son. A man without a past searches the world for potential relatives, while in the title story, a Jew and a Muslim cast adrift in a Yorkshire landscape find momentary sisterhood over a copy of the Koran while dreaming of a world that combines the Brontë sisters and Franz Kafka.

The Independent publishes today a review of the book:

Now here comes Tamar Yellin with a new sighting (of Franz Kafka) in (of all unlikely places) Haworth, erstwhile home of that other consumptive, Emily Brontë. These two writers - the fastidious Jew and the uncorseted Romantic - are the polarities between which all Yellin's stories oscillate in Kafka in Brontëland.

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