Das Gesicht des Anderen: Roman

From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital. From the moment that an ambulance...

Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett. In this eerie and evocative...

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. In this Kafkaesque allegorical fantasy, Mole has converted a...

"La mujer de la arena" (Der Titel auf Deutsch: "Die Frau in den Dünen") ist ein Roman des japanischen Autors Kōbō Abe, der erstmals 1962 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte folgt einem Amateur-Entomologen namens Niki Jumpei, der in eine...

"Die Frau in den Dünen" von Kōbō Abe ist ein faszinierender Roman, der die Geschichte eines Entomologen namens Niki Jumpei erzählt. Auf der Suche nach seltenen Insekten begibt sich Jumpei in eine abgelegene Küstenregion mit riesigen...

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In den Sanddünen vor einem abgelegenen Dorf frönt Niki Jumpei seiner einzigen Leidenschaft: der Suche nach unentdeckten Insektenarten. Als die Nacht hereinbricht, bieten ihm die Dorfbewohner ein Nachtquartier an – sie seilen ihn in die...

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered...

Kangaroo Notebook von Abe, Kobo

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...

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of...