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They include The Woman in the Dunes, The Ark Sakura, The Face of Another, The Box Man, and The Ruined Map. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been bestsellers in Japan. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Known mainly for his work outside the sf field, like Suna no Onna ( 1962 trans E Dale Saunders as The Woman in the Dunes. Secret Rendezvous is a nightmarish satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life. Working name of Japanese author Kimifusa Abe (1924-1993), active from 1948 to the year of his death several of his later novels have been translated into English. As he sets out to find her, he finds himself in the corridors of a vast underground hospital. For those of you familiar with the works of Kobo Abe, be prepared for. SECRET RENDEZVOUS by Kb Abe buy your copy here. hospital where the nameless protagonist of Kangaroo Notebook becomes. His covert explorations reveal that the enormous hospital she was taken to is home. He sets out on an epic journey to find her, around the labyrinthine corners of a strange and enormous hospital. He encounters sinister medics and freakish sexual experiments and even when he is suddenly appointed as the hospital's chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he is a horse, he will not give up his search. Abe Kb has often been referred to as the Franz Kafka of Japan.1And, indeed. As he sets out to find her, he finds himself in the corridors of a vast underground hospital with the unmistakable feeling of being watched. It’s 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - except no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with her.
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