The Face of Another
Kōbō Abe author E Dale Saunders translator Kaori Nagai editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:28th Sep '06
Should be back in stock very soon
The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon he finds that such mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self - a self that is capable of anything. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity, and the social contract, THE FACE OF ANOTHER is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.
ISBN: 9780141188539
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 15mm
Weight: 194g
256 pages