The release date for the English version of 'The Metamorphosis' by
Franz Kafka is Mar 1972. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A different version of the ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 cover
"Gregor Samsa woke up one morning following a restless night and discovered that he had changed into a massive bug in his bed. He was lying on his hard, as if armor-plated, back, and he could see, if he elevated his head slightly, that his brown belly was separated into stiff arched parts, on top of which the bed cover was almost falling off. His brown belly resembled a dome. His many legs, pathetically tiny in comparison to the rest of his mass, wavered impotently in front of him."
Kafka opens his masterwork, The Metamorphosis, with a shocking, weird, and unexpectedly amusing first scene. It tells the tale of a young guy who, after changing into a gigantic bug that resembles a beetle over night, is ashamed of his family and feels isolated in his own house. One of the most read and influential novels of the 20th century, The Metamorphosis is a terrifying—yet hilariously humorous—meditation on human sentiments of guilt, solitude, and inadequacy. In the words of W.H. Auden, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."