Kōbō Abe

A nameless man who chooses to exist in a small cardboard box records life in the box and his observations of the world from its small window as he wanders the streets of Tokyo. By the author of Woman in the Dunes. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

A Novel

The Box Man

A private detective loses his own identity during a directionless search for a missing person, a salesman who vanished more than six months ago, in modern Tokyo. Reprint.

The Ruined Map

安部公房

Kobo Abe

David

In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where they are pressed into shovelling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village.

The Woman in the Dunes

The author of Woman in the Dunes funny and terrifying novel about an imminentpost-apocalyptic Japan.

The Ark Sakura

An ordinary man finds himself caught in the power of bizarre and unpredictable forces when he discovers one morning at breakfast that radish sprouts have begun to grow out of his shins

Kangaroo Notebook

Inter Ice Age 4. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. Drawings by Machi Abé

Juliet Winters Carpenter

A collection of works including such stories as "An Irrelevant Death," "The Dream Soldier," "Dendrocalia," "The Special Envoy," and "The Crime of S. Karma"

Beyond the Curve

In this famous postwar Japanese novel, the first of Abe's to be translated into English, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist in pursuit of a rare specimen of beetle, wanders into a strange seaside village, whose residents all live in sandpits. He is taken prisoner, and, along with a widow cast out by the community, he is forced to move into her sandpit and continually shovel away the sand that threatens to take over the village. In Niki's struggles to escape his prison and his developing relationship with the woman, he gradually comes to understand the existential nature of life.

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