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Synopsis
What does the fate of a narrator who awakes one morning to find what appear to be radish sprouts growing out of his shins have to tell us about the reality of life in modern urban Japan? This is the subject of Kobo Abe's terrifying and funny last novel: an ordinary man in in the grip of bizarre and often hostile forces--including self propelled hospital beds, doctors eager to cure the wrong ailment, mysterious windstorms and infant ghosts.
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "It should have turned out like any other morning."
Industry Reviews
"Our situation is as helpless and hopeless as that of the nameless man in this novel....It is up to us whether we close the book and give up, as I was tempted to do. What stopped me was was the peculiar idea...that this is just what Abe had planned, and that if I did what he had expected of me, I would be acknowledging, somehow, that he had won and he would be entitled to laugh at me."
New York Times Book Review - David R. Slavitt (04/28/1996)
"Achieves a radical balance between deep philosophical questioning and a refreshingly goofy sense of comedy...One of Abe's signature triumphs."
Robinson
"A summation of [Abe's] life and art....call it the Inferno as theme park."
Robinson
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