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Three Plays by Kobo Abe by Kobo Abe
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.80-- New England Theatre JournalThree plays by one of contemporary Japan's most prominent writers-Involuntary Homicide, The Green Stockings, The Ghost is Here-translated for this volume reveal Kobo... -
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Dazzlingly 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 by David Mitchell,... -
Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'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 wrong with her. As he... -
The Face of Another by Kobo Abe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The 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 him. His only entry... -
The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'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 person, but nothing is... -
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'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 and watches the world... -
The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe 9780241454589
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81'One of Japan's most venerated writers' David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker, only to find... -
The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe 9780375726521
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726521Author Kobo AbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random... -
The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe 9780307389633
Booksplease Price: £16.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389633Author Kobo AbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House... -
The Box Man by Kobo Abe 9780375726514
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726514Author Kobo AbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House... -
The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe 9780679733782
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679733782Author Kobo AbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House... -
Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe 9780375726545
Booksplease Price: £15.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726545Author Kobo AbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random... -
The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe 9780241675304
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81'One of Japan's most venerated writers' David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker, only to find... -
The Face of Another by Kobo Abe 9780375726538
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726538Author Kobo AbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House... -
Beasts Head for Home : A Novel by Kobo Abe
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57In 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 drugs, smuggling,... -
Kangaroo Notebook: A Novel by Kobo Abe 9780679746638
Booksplease Price: £10.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746638Author Kobo AbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House... -
The Frontier Within: Essays by Abe Kobo by Kobo Abe 9780231163866
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Abe Kobo (1924-1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science fiction and plays of the absurd. However, he also wrote theoretical criticism for which... -
A Study Guide for Kobo Abe's the Man Who Turned Into a Stick by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375392389
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375392389Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Gale, Study... -
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A Study Guide for Kobo Abe's "The Woman in the Dunes" by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375394451
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375394451Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Gale, Study... -
Sixty-Nine by Ryu Murakami
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Murakami's 69, a side-splittingly funny coming-of-age novel set in the Japan of the sixties In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his... -
Unfinished Topography / Collection 9784902080551
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £29.62Takashi Kawashima has taken natural catastrophes such as the Tohoku earthquake and volcano eruptions as a starting point to produce his works. He never presents his work as something ex-post like a... -
Face and Form: Physiognomy in Literary Modernism by Anca Parvulescu 9781009599795
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72Faces, faces, faces – faces everywhere! Modernism was obsessed with the ubiquity of the human face. Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and, later, Kōbō Abe framed their... -
Voices of the Fallen Heroes: And Other Stories by Yukio Mishima 9780241723609
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.81'These stories are waves of fury, desire and delicious cruelty, always kissed by beauty and death' Mariana Enriquez A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary... -
Machinic Eros: Writings on Japan by Felix Guattari
Booksplease Price: £25.66The French philosopher Felix Guattari frequently visited Japan during the 1980s and organized exchanges between French and Japanese artists and intellectuals. His immersion into the "machinic eros"... -
Dawn to the West: A History of Japanese Literature: Japanese Literature of the the Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism by Donald Keene 9780231114356
Booksplease Price: £51.19This is the third book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by the world's authoritative translator and scholar of Japanese culture and literature. The Columbia paperback edition,... -
Return Trip Tango and Other Stories from Abroad by Frank MacShane 9780231079938
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Return Trip Tango is a veritable cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together a number of renowned authors including Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kobo Abe, Marguerite... -
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 9780141196657
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The story of the man-cub Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, guided by his mentors Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther and the ancient python Kaa, and who confronts his... -
The Traitor: A Novel Kōbō Abe 9780231212946
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £64.05In postwar Japan, a writer meets a small-town innkeeper who is obsessed with a tale from the nineteenth century. He relates the saga of Enomoto Takeaki, an admiral in the final years of the Tokugawa... -
Seeing Kyoto by Juliet Winters Carpenter
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.25Tokyo may be the capital of Japan, but Kyoto is its heart and soul. The rich textures of twelve centuries of culture seem to have woven themselves into the very air. How else could you explain the... -
The Traitor: A Novel Kōbō Abe 9780231212953
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75In postwar Japan, a writer meets a small-town innkeeper who is obsessed with a tale from the nineteenth century. He relates the saga of Enomoto Takeaki, an admiral in the final years of the Tokugawa... -
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Kipling's best-loved work, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile... -
Lea: A Novel Pascal Mercier 9780802121660
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Pascal Mercier's Night Train to Lisbon mesmerized readers around the world, and went on to become an international bestseller, establishing Mercier as a breakthrough European literary talent. Now, in... -
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.04The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbors. Tracing... -
Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently...