| ISBN |
9780241454602 (paperback) |
| Name |
Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993 author. |
| Uniform title |
Moyetsukita chizu. English |
| Title |
The ruined map / Kōbō Abe ; translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. |
| Published |
London : Penguin Books, 2020. |
| ©1997 |
| Description |
232 pages : illustration ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
First published in Japan as Moyetsukita chizu, 1967. This translation first published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. |
| Summary |
Mr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye. The nameless detective has but two clues: a photo and a matchbook. With these, he embarks upon an ever-more-puzzling pursuit that leads him into the depths of Tokyo's dangerous underworld, where he begins to lose the boundaries of his own identity. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Japanese. |
| Subjects |
Sales personnel -- Fiction |
| Missing persons -- Fiction |
| Private investigators -- Fiction |
| Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction |
| Other Names |
Saunders, E. Dale (Ernest Dale), 1919-1995 translator. |
| Series |
Penguin modern classics |
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