🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£10.66
RRP: £12.99
Save £2.33 (18%)
Dispatched within 2-3 working days.

Baking with Kafka

By (author) Tom Gauld
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Canongate Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Published: 7th Sep 2017
Dimensions: w 211mm h 157mm d 18mm
Weight: 470g
ISBN-10: 1786891506
ISBN-13: 9781786891501
Barcode No: 9781786891501
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
2018 EISNER AWARD-WINNER - BEST HUMOUR PUBLICATION In Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld asks the questions no one else dares ask about civilisation as we know it. - How do you get published during a skeleton apocalypse? - What was the secret of Kafka's lemon drizzle cake? - And what plot possibilities does the exploding e-cigarette offer modern mystery writers? A riotous collection of laugh-out-loud cartoons in his signature style, Baking with Kafka reaffirms Gauld's position as a first-rate cartoonist, creating work infused with a deep understanding of both literary and cartoon history.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New£10.66
+ FREE UK P & P

What Reviewers Are Saying

Submit your review
Newspapers & Magazines
A collection of brilliantly off-the-wall cartoons. Ever wondered what War and Peace clickbait looks like? Or Machiavelli's month planner? Gauld can help * * Daily Mail, Best Reads of 2017 * * Tom Gauld might just be the Edward Gorey of our time, channelling his wry humour and macabre aesthetic through exquisite black-and-white illustrations -- MARIA POPOVA Each single-page piece is a clever, funny, slightly bonkers riff on a literary theme . . . Sublime * * The Times * * One of the best cartoonists around! * * BoingBoing * * Praise for the works of Tom Gauld: Heartwarming * * Guardian * * At once hilarious and achingly melancholy . . . A quietly essential read * * Wired * * His economical art . . . is married to dry, incisive humor, making each strip a carefully composed marvel * * Publishers Weekly * * The ironic takes on key moments in history and literature (Armstrong on the moon, Cathy and Heathcliff wandering the moor) will certainly elicit a few laughs * * Vogue * * Gauld's deceptively simple panels and sparse, understated dialogue speak poetically . . . Gauld finds humour and hope - as well as coffee and doughnuts - in his portrait of a fading utopia * * Guardian * * Precise and wryly hilarious * * NPR, Best Books of 2013 * *