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Paperback Books by Kobo Abe
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| The Face of Another |
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| by Kobo Abe |
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| Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 2003 |
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| Secret Rendezvous |
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| by Kobo Abe |
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| In this surreal, absurdist novel, a satire of doctors and of modern attitudes toward sex, a salesman's wife is kidnapped and becomes the object of bizarre sexual experiments. Searching for... Read More |
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| Publication Date: July 2002 |
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| The Ruined Map |
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| by Kobo Abe |
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| Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 2001 |
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| The Box Man |
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| by Kobo Abe |
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| A nameless man who chooses to exist in a small cardboard box records life in the box and his observations of the world from its small window as he wanders the streets of Tokyo. By the author... Read More |
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| Publication Date: July 2001 |
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| Kangaroo Notebook |
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| by Kobo Abe |
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| 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... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 1997 |
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| The Woman in the Dunes |
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| by Kobo Abe |
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| One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 1991 |
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