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    612-822-4611

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Kangaroo Notebook

Kangaroo Notebook

Abe, Kobo

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0679746633
ISBN13: 9780679746638
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Apr 29 1997
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes one morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment that repulses his doctor but provides the patient with the unusual ability to snack on himself. In short order, Kobo Abe's unraveling protagonist finds himself hurtling in a hospital bed to the very shores of hell. Abe has assembled a cast of oddities into a coherent novel, one imbued with unexpected meaning. Translated from the Japanese by Maryellen Toman Mori.

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