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The Ruined Map
'A brilliant display of pyrotechnics, a compelling tour de force ... by a master jeweller of polished prose' The New York TimesA private detective is hired to find a missing …
The Woman in the Dunes
Dazzlingly original, Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, and this Penguin Classics edition contains a new introduction …
The Face of Another
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 …
Ark Sakura
In anticipation of a coming nuclear apocalypse, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an 'ark'. While searching for his crew, he falls for the tricks of a wily insect …
Kvinnan i sanden
En insektssamlare försvinner spårlöst och dödförklaras sju år senare. I själva verket lever han fortfarande i en liten by vid havet. Folket som bor där för en desperat kamp för …
The Box Man
'A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece' Chicago Sun Times'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes …
Secret Rendezvous
'A gorgeously entertaining, provocative book' Chicago TribuneIt is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing …
Die Frau in den Dünen
Secret Rendezvous
'A gorgeously entertaining, provocative book' Chicago TribuneIt is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing …
The Face of Another
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of …
Beasts Head for Home?
In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyuzo, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving …
