Secret Rendezvous - Hardcover

Abe, Kobo

3.51

1,857 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394503724 ISBN 13: 9780394503721

Publisher: Marboro Books, 1979

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Very Good, 1st Edition. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. Fore-edges of leaves untrimmed. In bright gilt lettered black cloth-backed beige boards featuring gilt embossed Chinese character. Also very good unclipped original Tadanori Yokoo colour pictorial dustwrapper.

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Review:

"A gorgeously entertaining, provocative book." --Chicago Tribune
"A disconcertingly funny book . . . both original and edgily entertaining." --The New York Times Book Review
"Reads much as if it were the collaborative effort of Hieronymus Bosch, Franz Kafka, and Mel Brooks." --Chicago Sun-Times

About the Author:

Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. In 1948 he received a medical degree from Tokyo Imperial University, but he never practiced medicine. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist, and was also widely known as a dramatist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been best sellers in Japan. They include The Woman in the Dunes, Kangaroo Notebook, The Ark Sakura, The Face of Another, The Box Man, and The Ruined Map.

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