Kobo Abe (Author)
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.
"A fascinating book.... The world of Kobo Abe is one in which
intellectual concepts have the emotional impact and motivating
power of psychotic compulsions."-"Newsweek"
"A major novel... Since The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe's stock as
a novelist has been very high. The Face of Another raises it still
more."-"The Christian Science Monitor
""Probes the edges of a waking nightmare....The central, shaping
metaphor of face and facelessness is brilliant, and Abe's
relentless pursuit of its every implication is powerful."-"The
Saturday Review"
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