The Box Man : A Novel
by Kobo Abe
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- Acceptable
- Paperback
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0865474613
- ISBN 13
- 9780865474611
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. In 1948 he receiveved a medical degree from Tokyo Imperial University, but he never practiced medicine. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country’s foremost living novelist, and was also widely known as a dramatist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been bestsellers in Japan. They include The Woman in the Dunes, Kangaroo Notebook, The Ark Sakura, The Face of Another, The Box Man, and Secret Rendezvous.
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- ThriftBooks (US)
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- G0865474613I5N00
- Title
- The Box Man : A Novel
- Author
- Kobo Abe
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 3
- ISBN 10
- 0865474613
- ISBN 13
- 9780865474611
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- Gordonsville, Virginia, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1991
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