Secret Rendezvous
Kōbō Abe author Juliet Winters Carpenter translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:29th Oct '20
Should be back in stock very soon
A Kafaesque marvel and a biting satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life.
'A gorgeously entertaining, provocative book' Chicago Tribune
It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with her. As he sets out to find her, he finds himself in the corridors of a vast underground hospital, where he encounters sinister medics, freakish sexual experiments and the unmistakable feeling of being watched. Even when he is suddenly appointed as the hospital's chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he is a horse, he will not give up his search. Secret Rendezvous is a nightmarish satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life.
'Reads as if it were the collaborative effort of Hieronymus Bosch, Franz Kafka and Mel Brooks' Chicago Sun Times
A disconcertingly funny book . . . both original and edgily entertaining * The New York Times Book Review *
Vivid and spooky * Kirkus Reviews *
Original and edgily entertaining. It confirms Abe as the best Japanese novelist (along with Shusaku Endo) since the deaths of Yukio Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata. * The New York Times *
ISBN: 9780241454619
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm
Weight: 145g
192 pages