This work has been translated into Persian by Naser Ghiasi. Tehran-based No Publishing has released 'Letters to Ottla and the Family' in 241 pages.

The book collects Franz Kafka 's letters to his sister Ottla (Ottilie Davidová, née Kafka), as well as some letters to his parents Julie and Hermann Kafka. These letters were written between 1909 and 1924; though Ottla was murdered in the Holocaust (gassed in Auschwitz on October 7, 1943), the letters were preserved by her husband and children.

Originally published in German in 1974, the letters were translated into English by Richard and Clara Winston and published by Schocken Books in 1982. The English edition also includes photographs of Kafka and Ottla, as well as several images of postcards, letters, and drawings Kafka had sent his sister.

Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, Kafka's work fuses elements of realism and the fantastique and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella 'The Metamorphosis' (1915) and the novels 'The Trial' (1924) and 'The Castle' (1926).

He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his legal education was employed full-time in various legal and insurance jobs. His professional obligations led to internal conflict as he felt that his true vocation was writing.

Only a minority of his works were published during his life; the story-collections 'Contemplation' (1912) and 'A Country Doctor' (1919), and individual stories, such as his novella 'The Metamorphosis', were published in literary magazines, but they received little attention.

He wrote hundreds of letters to family and close friends, including his father, with whom he had a strained and formal relationship. He became engaged to several women but never married. He died relatively unknown in 1924 of tuberculosis, aged 40.