"Bending real history into a fantastical tale of two young thinkers in pursuit of 'the true truth, ' [a] playful graphic novel by New Yorker cartoonist Krimstein . . . Irreverent yet full of tenderness for its subjects, Krimstein's experiment is a dizzying delight." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Einstein in Kafkaland is crisply written, witty, and with art that evokes places in time and feelings in the way all great graphic stories should. Along with some of Einstein's important physics, you may learn just what Kafka was driving at. One man manages to convince his readers the universe is impossible to understand; it's mysterious, even hostile. The other discovers the universe is knowable, if we embrace a future determined by gravity. If that seems weird and Kafka-esque, read on." --
Bill Nye "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 American Prometheus, the biography that inspired the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer "Art and science collide in Ken Krimstein's new graphic biography
. In this book, the author of the brilliant and whimsical
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt similarly translates careful research into scenic, emotive comics-in this case tracking the potential effects of an adventitious meeting in Prague between two geniuses on the cusp of world-changing discoveries." --
NPR, "Summer Books Our Critics Can't Wait to Read" "For the science-challenged, it comes as a relief and a delight to have gravity and relativity explained in Ken Krimstein's marvelously inventive graphic novel." --
The New York Sun "[Krimstein] engagingly chronicles a significant time period for both [Einstein and Kafka] . . . A fun, amusing fantasy about an important year in two icons' lives." --
Kirkus Reviews "Krimstein builds a remarkable historical fantasy that draws [Einstein and Kafka] together, each pulled along in their own way by the White Rabbit (yes, THAT White Rabbit) . . . readers seeking to go down the rabbit hole and feel the truth will be at home in these pages." --
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