Kobo Abe

The Box Man

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'A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece' Chicago Sun Times'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phenomenon of people who have decided to abandon society and live in boxes on the Tokyo streets, he has found himself drawn into the anonymity and voyeurism of their life. As he becomes obsessed with spying on a young nurse, his identity slips away, in Kobo Abe's eerie, disorienting and seductive masterpiece of unease.'Funny, sad and destructive ... an invention with its own c… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Saunders, E. Dale (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-241-45459-6
EAN: 9780241454596
Produktnummer: 33380550
Verlag: Penguin Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.2 cm 124 g
Gewicht: 124

Über den Autor

Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been bestsellers in Japan. They include The Woman in the Dunes, The Ark Sakura, The Face of Another, The Box Man and The Ruined Map.