{"product_id":"9781635579536","title":"Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Clever, charming, amusing, and just plain brilliant. Ken Krimstein is the most inventive graphic biographer on the planet-and certainly the only one who could explain both Einstein and Kafka. A page turner on gravity and relativity!” -KAI BIRD, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prometheus\u003c\/i\u003e, the biography that inspired the Oscar-winning film \u003ci\u003eOppenheimer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e cartoonist, a graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year in Prague when Einstein became “Einstein,” Franz Kafka became “Kafka,” and the world changed forever.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the year that Prague was home to both Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka from 1911-1912, the trajectory of the two men's lives wove together in uncanny ways-as did their shared desire to tackle the world's biggest questions in Europe's strangest city. In stunning words and pictures, \u003ci\u003eEinstein in Kafkaland\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the untold story of how their worlds wove together in a cosmic battle for new kinds of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Einstein, his lost year in Prague became a critical bridge set him on the path to what many consider the greatest scientific discovery of all time, his General Theory of Relativity. And for Kafka, this charmed year was a bridge to writing his first masterpiece, The Judgment. Based on diaries, lectures, letters, and papers from this period amid a planet electrifying itself into modernity, \u003ci\u003eEinstein in Kafkaland\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life the emergence of a new world where art and science come together in ways we still grapple with today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47918162510064,"sku":"9781635579536","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781635579536_p0.jpg?v=1763683109","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781635579536","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}