Description: "Inspired by a true story, Kafka and the Doll recounts a remarkable gesture of kindness from one of the world's most bewildering and iconic writers. In the fall of 1923, Franz Kafka encountered a distraught little girl on a walk in the park. She'd lost her doll and was inconsolable. Kafka told her the doll wasn't lost, but instead, traveling the world and having grand adventures! And to reassure her, Kafka began delivering letters from the doll to the girl for weeks."--Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: ★"Spun from a true anecdote and likely to move adult readers as well as younger ones, this set of
quiet encounters between a writer and a child has as much going on between the spare, poetic
lines as in them. . . . A tribute to the way words can change lives, as well as a rare glimpse of a
writer most of us perhaps only think we know." --Booklist, starred review