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The face of another, is a book that may take a bit to get into, as it is written in a more personal account, as though you are in the very mind of the character himself. Here the essay analyses the films themes on postwar japanese society, the growing sense of isolation. Feb 04, 2003 i have been sampling a number of japanese novelists recently, so i thought id give kobo abe a try. Buy the face of another penguin modern classics book online at. Ebola 76 by amir tag elsir why this book should win by chad post april 25, 2018 best translated book awards 1 comment. Kobo abe, the internationally acclaimed author of woman in the dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of kafka and beckett. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accidenta man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. The doris lessing society is dedicated to supporting the scholarly study of lessings work. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. Read the ruined map a novel by kobo abe available from rakuten kobo.
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