Back­ground pho­to by Antho­ny DELANOIX on Unsplash

A bril­liant graph­ic nar­ra­tive reveal­ing the piv­otal year (19111912) that Prague was home to both Albert Ein­stein and Franz Kaf­ka, 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. Tying the lit­er­ary, sci­en­tif­ic, and geo­graph­ic cen­ters of the world togeth­er for a sin­gle year, Ein­stein in Kafka­land tells an untold sto­ry of two of the mod­ern era’s defin­ing fig­ures, each brought to vivid life with stun­ning art­work in Krimstein’s sig­na­ture style, as they bat­tle God for truth in a cos­mic uni­verse against the back­drop of Prague’s intri­ca­cies and mys­ter­ies.” −From the Publisher

Cred­it line: Excerpt­ed with per­mis­sion from Blooms­bury Pub­lish­ing Inc. from Ein­stein in Kafka­land: How Albert Fell Down the Rab­bit Hole and Came Up with the Uni­verse © by Ken Krim­stein, 2024.”

Ken Krim­stein has pub­lished car­toons in The New York­er and The Wall Street Jour­nal. He is the author of The Three Escapes of Han­nah Arendt (which won the Bernard J. Brom­mel Award and was a final­ist for the Jew­ish Book Award) and When I Grow Up (named a Best Book of the Year by NPR). He lives in Evanston, Illinois.