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Secret Rendezvous

By Kobo Abe

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| Paperback | 9780375726545

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From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.
From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to takeContinue

From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.
From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that she is perfectly healthy, her bewildered husband realizes that things are not as they should be. His covert explorations reveal that the enormous hospital she was taken to is home to a network of constant surveillance, outlandish sex experiments, and an array of very odd and even violent characters. Within a few days, though no closer to finding his wife, the unnamed narrator finds himself appointed the hospital’s chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he’s a horse. With its nightmarish vision of modern medicine and modern life, Secret Rendezvous is another masterpiece from Japan’s most gifted and original writer of serious fiction.

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  • Book Review: Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe Share

    Kobo Abe is sort of the Kafka of Japan. One doesn’t have to look far to see the influence, and Abe himself even admitted Kafka’s influence in one of the Hiroshi Teshigahara documentaries put out by Criterion. Teshigahara directed a number of films ba ... (read full critics)

    blogcritics published on Thu, 14 Oct 2010

  • Hooray for Monsters

    Japanese fiction resembles British drama in that it started off at its peak and thereafter slid downhill. The Japanese peak came earlier: The Tale of Genji was written in the first quarter of the eleventh century. And it was written by a woman—at tim ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  • Paperback 192 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0375726543
  • ISBN-13: 9780375726545
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: Jul 09, 2002
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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