{"product_id":"einstein-in-kafkaland-ken-krimstein-9781635579536","title":"Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ken Krimstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1635579538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635579536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00h x 1.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Ken Krimstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44567008313599,"sku":"9781635579536","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7cb29b6a-53c9-4942-a66a-8625ec3a25a3.jpg?v=1701375584","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/einstein-in-kafkaland-ken-krimstein-9781635579536","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}