Christine Estima

Letters to Kafka is a sweeping, tragic romance and feminist adventure about translator and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská's torrid love affair with Franz Kafka. In 1919, Milena Jesenská, a clever and spirited twenty-three-year-old, finds herself trapped in an unhappy marriage to literary critic Ernst Pollak. As Pollak is unable to support them in Vienna's post-war economy, Jesenská must supplement their...