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Secret rendezvous / Kōbō Abe ; translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF ABE	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. On Loan .	12 May 2024

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780241454619 (paperback)
Name	Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993 author.
Uniform title	Mikkai
Title	Secret rendezvous / Kōbō Abe ; translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
Published	London : Penguin Classics, 2020
Published	©1979
Description	174 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes	First published in Japan as Mikkkai in 1977.
Summary	In Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's wife, though she is perfectly healthy. He sets out on an epic journey to find her, around the labyrinthine corners of a strange and enormous hospital. Days into his search, having encountered countless strange characters, odd sexual experiments and the unmistakable feeling of being watched, he is suddenly appointed to be the hospital's chief of security, and his new boss is convinced that he is a horse. Throughout it all, he will never stop searching for his wife.
Language note	Translated from the Japanese.
Subjects	Surrealism -- Fiction
	Paraphilias -- Fiction
	Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction
Genre	Thrillers (Fiction)
Other Names	Carpenter, Juliet Winters translator.
Series	Penguin modern classics
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Paraphilias -- Fiction . Surrealism -- Fiction . Thrillers (Fiction) . Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction . Authors: Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993 . Carpenter, Juliet Winters . Series: Penguin modern classics .