Secret Rendezvous
by Abe, Kobo
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0394503724
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503721
- Seller
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brooklyn, New York, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. In 1948 he received 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 best sellers in Japan. They include The Woman in the Dunes , Kangaroo Notebook , The Ark Sakura , The Face of Another , The Box Man , and The Ruined Map.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cinemage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006308
- Title
- Secret Rendezvous
- Author
- Abe, Kobo
- Format/Binding
- Bds & Cl.w.dj.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394503724
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503721
- Publisher
- Knopf Pub.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Writers Authors Japanese Authors
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Japanese Film and Culture;
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