To call Matei Vişniec’s novel “kafkaesque” barely scratches the surface of what Mr K Released is all about: it lives and breathes the great Czech writer unabashedly and with total flair. Vişniec (in translation by Jozefina Komporaly) brilliantly pulls it off. A man – Kosef J – is unexpectedly released from prison one day, having spent many years behind bars for an undisclosed crime. Bewildered, curious and looking for an answer, he soon finds himself lost on the other side of the prison system.
Toby Lichtig (Chair of Judges, 2021 EBRD Literature Prize)
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