The Box Man
$21.04
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2021
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241454596 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024145459X |
| Author: | Kobo Abe, E. Dale Saunders |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 124g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
A stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity
A stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity * The New York Times *A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece * Chicago Sun-Times *Like Kafka, Abe’s work reveals an astonishing ability to create dreamlike events * Chicago Tribune *
About The Author
Kobo Abe
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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