{"product_id":"in-the-penal-colony-ian-johnston-9781533149398","title":"In the Penal Colony","description":"The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror. In the Penal Colony describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian Johnston, Franz Kafka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1533149399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781533149398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.07d","brand":"Ian Johnston","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985584849151,"sku":"9781533149398","price":6.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c0767f0f-23c4-433b-b1b3-324755a2b803.jpg?v=1683278385","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-penal-colony-ian-johnston-9781533149398","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}