Secret Rendezvous
By
Kōbō Abe
Kōbō Abe,
Juliet Winters Carpenter
Juliet Winters Carpenter(Translator)
1977 • 179 pages

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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. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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