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The Box Man: A Novel

Name: The Box Man: A Novel
ISBN: 0375726519

Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett. In this eerie and evocative masterpi

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“During the predawn hours of the twenty-third, the Tokyo Police began to arrest those vagrants trying to avoid the cold of the approaching winter by camping in and around the underground passage of the Keisei Line, Ueno Railway Station, Ueno Park, Daito Ward, in the hopes of preventing further shooti…”

— Kobo Abe, amazon.com

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