Stories of the Sahara James 'The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in

'The Metamorphosis' is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka - such as 'The Judgement'

and eloquently translated by Angela Rodel

his vulnerability

sparking off the inevitable security checks

as well as a husband

Stories of the Sahara James 'The Metamorphosis' is accompanied inSanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, the Canary Islands to Central America, and, for several years in the 1970s, to the Sahara. Stories of the Sahara invites us into Sanmao's extraordinary life in the desert: her experiences of love and loss, freedom and peril, all told with a voice as spirited as it is timeless. At a period when China was beginning to look beyond its