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9788498417173 | Siruela, December 30, 2012, cover price $25.95
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9780394558363 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: An underground quarry is converted into a huge nuclear shelter called an 'ark' by its creator, a half-mad inventor who calls himself Mole, who begins to recruit passengers
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9780307389633 | Vintage Books, February 10, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A classic from the renowned Japanese novelist about isolation and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, The Ark Sakura is as timely today as it was at its original publication.
9780679721611 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1989), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Tells of a fat hermit whose fears of a nuclear disaster lead him to build a shelter inside a mountain and equip it with everything necessary for the survival of a small community
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9788498411928 | Italian edition edition (Siruela, June 30, 2008), cover price $28.95
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9788498411010 | Siruela, June 30, 2007, cover price $27.95
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9780375726538 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 2003), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Horribly disfigured in an accidental lab explosion and rejected by and alienated from the rest of society, a scientist develops a perfect mask, one that provides a new identity that even his wife cannot penetrate.
9784770016348 | Reissue edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, July 1, 1992), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The Japanese novelist Kobo Abe has often been compared to Kafka and this 1966 novel suggests an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis.
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9780394503721 | Marboro Books, September 1, 1979, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: As a jump-shoe salesman searches for his wife in a sinister underground hospital, his fascination with the hospital's strange inhabitants, including a girl whose bones are gradually liquefying, causes him to barely notice his wife's unspeakable circumstances
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9780375726545 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: As a jump-shoe salesman searches for his wife in a sinister underground hospital, his fascination with the hospital's strange inhabitants, including a girl whose bones are gradually liquefying, causes him to barely notice his wife's unspeakable circumstances.
9781568360034 | Kodansha Amer Inc, July 1, 1993, cover price $12.00
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9780375726521 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A private detective loses his own identity during a directionless search for a missing person, a salesman who vanished more than six months ago, in modern Tokyo.
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9780394491066 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, December 1, 1974), cover price $7.95
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9780375726514 | Vintage Books, July 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A nameless man who chooses to exist in a small cardboard box records life in the box and his observations of the world from its small window as he wanders the streets of Tokyo.
9780865474611 | Reissue edition (North Point Pr, April 1, 1995), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A man who chooses to exist in a small cardboard box records life in the box and his observations of the world from its small window
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9780231082815 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Three 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 Abe's deep love of absurdity in the face of universal concerns.
Hardcover:
9780679424123 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Strange happenings plague the narrator of this story, beginning with the discovery one morning that radishes are sprouting from his legs
Hardcover:
9780231082808 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Three plays by one of contemporary Japan's most prominent writersâInvoluntary Homicide, The Green Stockings, The Ghost is Hereâtranslated for this volume reveal Kobo Abe's deep love of absurdity in the face of universal concerns.
Hardcover:
9780394443492 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1969, cover price $5.95
Paperback:
9784770016355, titled "The Ruined Map" | Reissue edition (Kodansha Amer Inc, February 1, 1993), cover price $13.00
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9784770014658 | Kodansha Amer Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of works including such stories as 'An irrelevant death,' 'The dream soldier,' 'Dendrocalia,' 'The special envoy,' and 'The crime of S.
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9780192820921 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $6.00
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9780679733782 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The inhabitants of a remote seaside village imprison a Japanese biologist in a deep sand pit
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9780860081470 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1975, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: Book by Kobo Abe
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