Kobo Abe
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The Box Man
$17.00 Add to cartKobo 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.
In- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Abe, Kobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375726519
- Language: English
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The Ark Sakura
$22.00 Add to cartA classic from the renowned Japanese novelist about isolation and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, The Ark Sakura is as timely today as it was at its original publication.
In this Kafkaesque allegor- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Abe, Kobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0307389634
- Language: English
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The Ruined Map
$16.95 Read moreOf 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 Chandler wi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Abe, Kobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0375726527
- Language: English
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The Face of Another
$15.95 Add to cartLike an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. Th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Abe, Kobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0375726535
- Language: English
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Secret Rendezvous
$20.00 Add to cartFrom 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…. [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Abe, Kobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375726543
- Language: English
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Kangaroo Notebook
$15.95 Add to cartIn 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 f… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Abe, Kobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 29 1997
- ISBN10: 0679746633
- Language: English
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The Woman in the Dunes
$17.00 Add to cartThe Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.
After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seash- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Abe, Kobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 1991
- ISBN10: 0679733787
- Language: English
