Books written by Kōbō Abe
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Inter Ice Age 4. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. Drawings by Machi Abé
Inter Ice Age 4. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. Drawings by Machi Abé
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Kangaroo Notebook: A Novel
An ordinary man finds himself caught in the power of bizarre and unpredictable forces when he discovers one morning at breakfast that radish sprouts have begun to grow out of his shins
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The Frontier Within: Essays by Abe Kobo
Featuring twelve essays from his prolific career—including "Poetry and Poets (Consciousness and the Unconscious)," written in 1944, and "The Frontier Within, Part II," written in 1969—this anthology introduces English-speaking readers ...
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Secret Rendezvous
As a jump-shoe salesman searches for his wife in a sinister underground hospital, his fascination with the hospital's strange inhabitants, including a girl whose bones are gradually liquefying, causes him to barely notice his wife's ...
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Secret Rendezvous
A man's frantic search for his vanished wife leads him to a sinister underground hospital. He encounters a sex-obsessed mix of patients and staff in this erotic satire of modern...
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Beasts Head for Home: A Novel
In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyūzō, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan.
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The Box Man: A Novel
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.
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The Ruined Map: A Novel
With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky.
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The Face of Another
Horribly disfigured in an accidental lab explosion and rejected by and alienated from the rest of society, a scientist develops a perfect mask, one that provides a new identity that even his wife cannot penetrate. Reprint.
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Абэ Кобо. Женщина в песках. Сожженная карта. Вошедшие в ковчег. Рассказы
Абэ Кобо. Женщина в песках. Сожженная карта. Вошедшие в ковчег. Рассказы
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Kangaroo Notebook
In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny.
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The Box Man: A Novel
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.
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The Ark Sakura
They include The Woman in the Dunes , Kangaroo Notebook , The Face of Another , The Box Man , and The Ruined Map . I N INTERNATIONAL BOOKS BY KOBO ABE NOVELS Kangaroo Notebook The Ark Sakura.
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Secret Rendezvous
From the acclaimed author of "Woman in the Dunes" comes Secret Rendezvous,"" the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.From the moment that an ambulance ...
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Secret Rendezvous
Even when he is suddenly appointed as the hospital's chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he is a horse, he will not give up his search. Secret Rendezvous is a nightmarish satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life.
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Inter Ice Age 4
In this chilling, futuristic novel , Professor Katsumi of Tokyo has assembled and programmed a computer which, given all the available facts about a person or situation, can predict the...