The Beast of Monsieur Racine Isabelle Struble And as the pieces of

And as the pieces of his story fall into place

Kafka is ensnared in a confounding bureaucracy of his own imagination

he encounters everything from killer king cobras to bizarre ice sculptures

which he created for fifteen years

unearthing a decades-old mystery about a missing child

The Beast of Monsieur Racine Isabelle Struble And as the pieces ofBy Tomi Ungerer. Published by Phaidon. Hardcover, 32 pages, Colour, 1971 Monsieur Racine wakes up one day to find his precious pear tree looted of all the award winning fruit. When he discovers that the culprit is funny looking beast, his anger gives way to curiosity and two become friends. But the beast is not quite what it seems, eventually it comes apart literally to show itself to be no beast at all, but the two playful children from next door,