Secret Rendezvous

Name: Secret Rendezvous
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ISBN: 9780375726545

ISBN-10: 0375726543

ISBN-13: 9780375726545

Edition: N/A

Authors: Kobo Abe, Kobo Abe

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.93" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

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.