Secret Rendezvous - Hardcover

Abe, Kobo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436000210 ISBN 13: 9780436000218

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1980

Synopsis

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 unspeakable circumstances

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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
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"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
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"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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436000210
• ISBN 13: 9780436000218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 190