Secret Rendezvous
by Kobo Abe
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0436000210
- ISBN 13
- 9780436000218
- Seller
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Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Gilt to spine and front board remains bright. Publisher sticker to back of Mylar-protected jacket. Only the gentlest of wear to book and jacket. First published as Mikkai in 1977 in Tokyo by Shinchosha Company. Translated by Juliet W. Carpenter. 'Lost with him in the labyrinth,' reads the flap copy of this hard-to-find edition of Abe's Kafka-esque satire of bureaucracy, 'we come to sense with him the seductiveness of the hospital and of its philosophy: that to be truly civilized is to embrace disease.' The signature dark humor of the great Tadanori Yokoo's jacket design portends the novel's missing wife narrative as the reader is beckoned into the back of a clown-colored ambulance before being jolted by a murky photo of a mysterious woman lying just beyond its cheerfully drawn curtains. Yokoo has cited influences varying from Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast of Push Pin Studios to filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, and has collaborated with artists ranging from Butoh founding father Tatsumi Hijikata to electronica pioneers Tangerine Dream. 179 pp.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Goodbar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 931318
- Title
- Secret Rendezvous
- Author
- Kobo Abe
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0436000210
- ISBN 13
- 9780436000218
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
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