Born to a Czech-French family in 1991, Maïa Hruska was raised in Germany and now lives in London, working as a lawyer, like Kafka. She is fluent in Czech, French, German, and English. Kafkaesque is her first book.Sam Taylor is a literary translator and novelist. He is the author of five novels and the award-winning translator of more than 70 books from French, including works by authors such as Laurent Binet, Leïla Slimani, David Diop, Maylis de Kerangal and Marcel Proust. He was born in England, spent a decade in France and now lives in the United States.

‘Rarely, if ever, have I read a book about translation so insightful, so wide-ranging, so romantic, so hard-hitting. A book to underline endlessly, to dog-ear, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy. Maïa Hruska and Sam Taylor have created a wonder’ Polly Barton, author of Fifty Sounds

Born to a Czech-French family in 1991, Maïa Hruska was raised in Germany and now lives in London, working as a lawyer, like Kafka. She is fluent in Czech, French, German, and English. Kafkaesque is her first book.Sam Taylor is a literary translator and novelist. He is the author of five novels and the award-winning translator of more than 70 books from French, including works by authors such as Laurent Binet, Leïla Slimani, David Diop, Maylis de Kerangal and Marcel Proust. He was born in England, spent a decade in France and now lives in the United States.

‘Rarely, if ever, have I read a book about translation so insightful, so wide-ranging, so romantic, so hard-hitting. A book to underline endlessly, to dog-ear, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy. Maïa Hruska and Sam Taylor have created a wonder’ Polly Barton, author of Fifty Sounds

Born to a Czech-French family in 1991, Maïa Hruska was raised in Germany and now lives in London, working as a lawyer, like Kafka. She is fluent in Czech, French, German, and English. Kafkaesque is her first book.Sam Taylor is a literary translator and novelist. He is the author of five novels and the award-winning translator of more than 70 books from French, including works by authors such as Laurent Binet, Leïla Slimani, David Diop, Maylis de Kerangal and Marcel Proust. He was born in England, spent a decade in France and now lives in the United States.

‘Rarely, if ever, have I read a book about translation so insightful, so wide-ranging, so romantic, so hard-hitting. A book to underline endlessly, to dog-ear, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy. Maïa Hruska and Sam Taylor have created a wonder’ Polly Barton, author of Fifty Sounds