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'A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece' Chicago Sun Times
'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phenomenon of people who have decided to abandon society and live in boxes on the Tokyo streets, he has found himself drawn into the anonymity and voyeurism of their life. As he becomes obsessed with spying on a young nurse, his identity slips away, in Kobo Abe's eerie, disorienting and seductive masterpiece of unease.
'Funny, sad and destructive ... an invention with its own crazy pull, it gnaws at the reader ... a stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity' The New York Times
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Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been bestsellers in Japan. They include The Woman in the Dunes, The Ark Sakura, The Face of Another, The Box Man and The Ruined Map.
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'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phenomenon of people who have decided to abandon society and live in boxes on the Tokyo streets, he has found himself drawn into the anonymity and voyeurism of their life. As he becomes obsessed with spying on a young nurse, his identity slips away, in Kobo Abe's eerie, disorienting and seductive masterpiece of unease.
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The Box Man (Paperback)
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Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 024145459X
ISBN 13: 9780241454596
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece'This is the record of a box man'The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed by the box men, slowly becomes drawn in to the anonymity and voyeuristic life inside a box. As his identity slowly slips away and he becomes obsessed with watching an intriguing young nurse, we too become privy to the schizophrenic and seductive unreality of a box man's life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780241454596
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The Box Man
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Paperback. Condición: New. 'A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece' Chicago Sun Times'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phenomenon of people who have decided to abandon society and live in boxes on the Tokyo streets, he has found himself drawn into the anonymity and voyeurism of their life. As he becomes obsessed with spying on a young nurse, his identity slips away, in Kobo Abe's eerie, disorienting and seductive masterpiece of unease.'Funny, sad and destructive . an invention with its own crazy pull, it gnaws at the reader . a stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity' The New York Times. Nº de ref. del artículo: LU-9780241454596
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Paperback. Condición: New. 'A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece' Chicago Sun Time s 'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps o ut of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardb oard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phenomenon of people who have decided to abandon society and live in boxes on the Tokyo streets, he has f ound himself drawn into the anonymity and voyeurism of their life. As he be comes obsessed with spying on a young nurse, his identity slips away, in Ko bo Abe's eerie, disorienting and seductive masterpiece of unease. 'Funny, sad and destructive . an invention with its own crazy pull, it gnaws at the reader . a stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity' The New York Times. Nº de ref. del artículo: RWARE0000069348
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