The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, Who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition as he becomes an object of disgrace to his family.

As Samsa struggles to reconcile his humanity with his transformation, Kafka, very deftly, weaves his readers into a web that deals with the absurdity of existence, the alienating experience of modern life and the cruelty and incomprehensibility if authoritarian power, leaving them at once stunned and impressed.