Six favorite books set in places that their authors never visited

Arthur Phillips is the author of The Song Is You, Prague, The Egyptologist, and Angelica.

He told The Week magazine about six of his favorite books set in places that their authors never visited.

One title on the list:

Amerika by Franz Kafka

Kafka asked that this unfinished novel be burned, but it’s good his wishes were ignored. Otherwise, we’d have missed out on the Statue of Liberty with the sword in her hand, not to mention the ominous “Great Nature Theater of Oklahoma.”

Read about another book on the list.

Also see Phillips' list of "Five Novels That Make You Feel Like You Might Know Something about Life During the Collapse of the Hapsburg Empire."

--Marshal Zeringue