208 pages
English language
Published April 27, 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd.
The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Franz Kafka
4 stars
(7 reviews)
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.
