Which Frank Kafka novel tells the story of a seventeen- year-old European emigrant named 'Karl Rossmann'?
The Stoker The Stoker "The Stoker" (original German: "Der Heizer") is a short story by Franz Kafka. Kafka wrote it as the first chapter of a novel he called "Amerika"; but he abandoned the novel in 1913 and published the one completed chapter alone as a pamphlet later that year. Since his death, it has usually been published along with the uncompleted fragments of "Amerika". The story begins with sixteen-year-old Karl Rossmann arriving at New York harbor on a slow-moving ship. Rossman has been sent to America "because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself with child by him." As
Seventeen (Serafin novel) Seventeen (Serafin novel) Seventeen is a 2004 novel by American author Shan Serafin. Originally published as a work for adults in English, the story now reaches a demographic of young adults and college students in several countries throughout the world, particularly females. Seventeen is the story of a female adolescent named Sophia. The premise is that of a seventeen-year-old, who, in grappling with the angst of finding one's place in the world, gives herself seven days to either find her purpose or end her life. This, Serafin's literary debut, is of additional significance because he wrote it from the point