Kangaroo Notebook (First Edition)

Abe, Kobo

ISBN 10: 0679424121 / ISBN 13: 9780679424123

Editore: Knopf (New York), 1996

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New York: Knopf, 1996. First edition., First printing. fine in a fine jacket. A novel, completed just before the author's death. An odd novel about a guy that wakes up one day to find that he is growing sprouts. Trs. by M.T. Mori. 183 pages. This is a tight clean copy, without the rubbing that plagues this title. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. NOTE: In the photo, the jacket appears to be "scratched," yet this is part of hte jacket design. GW.

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• Titolo: Kangaroo Notebook (First Edition)
• Editore: Knopf (New York)
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679424121
• ISBN 13: 9780679424123
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Japanese Literature

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Riassunto

At breakfast one morning, the narrator of Kangaroo Notebook discovers to his horror that what appear to be radish sprouts are growing out of his shins. Thus begins Kobo Abe's strange and wonderful last novel, completed not long before his death in 1993, and set in a skewed version of modern urban Japan. Funny and terrifying by turns, it is the story of an ordinary man in the grip of bizarre and thoroughly extraordinary forces - a self-propelled hospital bed that takes him literally to the edge of hell, doctors eager to cure the wrong ailments, mysterious windstorms, a nurse devoted to taking blood (her monthly quota is about three quarts), infant ghosts, and an American known as Master Hammer Killer who is making a film called Fatal Accidents.

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novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment that repulses his doctor but provides the patient with the unusual ability to snack on himself. In short order, Kobo Abe's unraveling protagonist finds himself hurtling in a hospital bed to the very shores of hell. Abe has assembled a cast of oddities into a coherent novel, one imbued with unexpected meaning. Translated from the Japanese by Maryellen Toman Mori.


From the Trade Paperback edition.