Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared (New Restored Text Translation)
“Unpredictable and funny, as close to a Buster Keaton comedy as you can get.” (Jim Krusoe - Los Angeles Times Book Review)“[Hofmann's] new translation is more successful in conveying ... a sense of Kafka's unfinished work.” (Veronika Tuckerova - Harvard Book Review)“One can hardly fail to welcome Michael Hofmann's more accurate English text.” (Washington Post Book World)“Hofmann's translation is invaluable....It achieves what translations are supposedly unable to do: it is at once 'loyal' and 'beautiful.'” (John Zilcosky - New Republic)“Hofmann's slick, sleek translation does a wonderful job of keeping those competing forces in balance.” (The San Francisco Chronicle)“Anything by Kafka is worth reading again,  especially in the hands of such a gifted  translator as Hofmann.” (The New York Times Book Review)“A stirring, singular work, now restored to its  original beauty.” (John Ashbery)“Michael Hofmann’s magnificent new translation restores its rightful place as one of Kafka’s most delightful and most memorable works.” (Charles Simic)“Of all the recent re-translations of Kafka into English, this volume is the most noteworthy. It achieves what translations are supposedly unable to do; it is at once ‘loyal’ and ‘beautiful’—beautifully disorienting, beautifully confusing, beautifully cruel.” (John Zilcosky - The New Republic)“Hofmann’s ability to overcome the obstacles presented by this particular work from Kafka marks this as the best translation.” (Kirkus Reviews)