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The box man / Kōbō Abe ; translated by E. Dale Saunders.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780241454596 (paperback)
Name	Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993 author.
Uniform title	Hakootoko
Title	The box man / Kōbō Abe ; translated by E. Dale Saunders.
Published	London : Penguin Classics, 2020
Published	©1974
Description	154 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Notes	First published in Japan as Hakootoko in 1973.
Summary	The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed by the box men, slowly becomes drawn in to the anonymity and voyeuristic life inside a box. As his identity slowly slips away and he becomes obsessed with watching an intriguing young nurse, we too become privy to the schizophrenic and seductive unreality of a box man's life.
Language note	Translated from the Japanese.
Subjects	Tramps -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction
Genre	Psychological fiction
Other Names	Saunders, E. Dale (Ernest Dale), 1919-1995 translator.
Series	Penguin modern classics
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Psychological fiction . Tramps -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction . See Also: Stream of consciousness fiction . Authors: Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993 . Saunders, E. Dale (Ernest Dale), 1919-1995 . Series: Penguin modern classics .