Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been bestsellers in Japan. They include THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES, THE ARK SAKURA, THE FACE OF ANOTHER, THE BOX MAN, and THE RUINED MAP.
"Abe follows with meticulous precision his hero's constantly
shifting physical, emotional and psychological states. He also
presents...everyday existence in a sand pit with such compelling
realism that these passages serve both to heighten the credibility
of the bizarre plot and subtly increase the interior tensions of
the novel."
-- The New York Times Book Review
"Some of Kobo Abe's readers will recall Kafka's manipulation of a
nightmarish tyranny of the unknown, others Beckett's selection of
sites like the sand pit...as a symbol of the undignified human
predicament." -- Saturday Review
" Abe follows with meticulous precision his hero's constantly
shifting physical, emotional and psychological states. He also
presents...everyday existence in a sand pit with such compelling
realism that these passages serve both to heighten the credibility
of the bizarre plot and subtly increase the interior tensions of
the novel."
-- The New York Times Book Review
" Some of Kobo Abe's readers will recall Kafka's manipulation of a
nightmarish tyranny of the unknown, others Beckett's selection of
sites like the sand pit...as a symbol of the undignified human
predicament." -- Saturday Review
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