Lost in America

Amerika (German working title Der Verschollene, "The Missing"), also known as The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), Amerika: The Missing Person and Lost in America, is the incomplete first novel by Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914 and published posthumously in 1927. The novel began as a short story titled "The Stoker". The novel incorporates many details of the experiences of Kafka's relatives who had emigrated to the United States. The commonly used title Amerika is from the edition of the text put together by Kafka's close friend, Max Brod, after Kafka's death in 1924. It has been published in several English-language versions, including as Amerika, translated by Edwin and Willa Muir (1938); as The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), translated by Michael Hofmann (1996); as Amerika: The Missing Person, translated by Mark Harman (2008); as Lost in America, translated by Anthony Northey (2010); and as The Man Who Disappeared (America), translated by Ritchie Robertson (2012).

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