![]() ![]() Highly recommended for 3+.Īlexa Dretzke is the assistant manager and children’s book buyer at Readings Hawthorn. The author’s note and short biography of Kafka are added bonuses to an already captivating story. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Kafka and the Doll are 9780593116333, 059311633X and the print ISBNs are 9780593116326, 0593116321. Based on a true story about Franz KafkaInspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the worlds most bewildering and iconic writers. Illustrator Rebecca Green brings it to life with bold and assured strokes. By Larissa Theule, Rebecca Green, ISBN: 9780593116326, Hardcover. Kafka and the Doll is written by Larissa Theule and published by Viking Books for Young Readers. Larissa Theule based this sweet story on Dora Diamant’s retelling of this episode to Kafka’s biographer. As a supposed postman, Kafka explains he has a letter from Soupsy at home to be delivered the next day to Irma! And so, Soupsy begins a peripatetic life of travel around the world, while the little girl becomes the recipient of wonderful letters from an author destined for fame. ![]() In this fictionalised account, the girl (Irma) has lost her doll (Soupsy) and Kafka, moved by her sadness, invents a tale of Irma’s beloved Soupsy going on an adventure. ![]() What a charming story this is! Kafka and the Doll is based on a factual event in Franz Kafka’s life, when he and his love, Dora Diamant, encountered a crying girl in a Berlin Park. ![]()
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