Kangaroo Notebook Paperback - 1997
by Kobo Abe
A vision of contemporary Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. At the center of the story is a gentle, self-effacing man who contracts a disorder that makes him a vegetable, and he becomes the victim of forces that alternately torture him, fuss over him, and neglect him. This last novel written before its author's death in 1993 marries magic realism to social satire and ends up with unexpected meaning.
From the jacket flap
In the last 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.
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- Title Kangaroo Notebook
- Author Kobo Abe
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 1997-04-29
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780679746638 / 0679746633
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.24 x 0.53 in (20.32 x 13.31 x 1.35 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Japan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97009204
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times, 08/24/1997, Page 24
- Publishers Weekly, 05/05/1997, Page 0
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