pbiA novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka's first fiance, and the story behindi Letters to FelicebppFranz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiance, through his iLetters to Felicei, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for bourgeois comforts. iLife After Kafkai is her story. The novel begins in 1935 as Felice flees with her children from Hitler's Berlin, following her family and members of Kafka's entourage--including Grete Bloch, Max Brod, and Salman Schocken--as they try to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Years later, a man claiming to be Kafka's son approaches Felice's son in Manhattan and the drama surrounding Kafka's letters to Felice begins.ppWhile taking the measure of literary fame's long shadow, iLife After Kafkai depicts the magic and poison of memories, and what we cling to when all else is lost. Most of all, it illuminates the bravery required to move forward through the shattered remains of one world to rebuild life in a new one.p