{"product_id":"the-box-man-isbn-9780375726514","title":"The Box Man","description":"Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of \u003cb\u003eWoman in the Dunes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ecombines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the streets of Tokyo and scribbling madly on the interior walls of his box, he describes the world outside as he sees or perhaps imagines it, a tenuous reality that seems to include a mysterious rifleman determined to shoot him, a seductive young nurse, and a doctor who wants to become a box man himself. \u003cb\u003eThe Box Man\u003c\/b\u003e is a marvel of sheer originality and a bizarrely fascinating fable about the very nature of identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders.“A spellbinder from beginnning to end, an edgy masterpiece.”–C\u003ci\u003ehicago Sun-Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity…an ontological thriller.”–\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliant…. Like Kafka’s, Abe’s work reveals an astonishing ability to create dreamlike events.\"–\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eKobo Abe\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. In 1948 he receiveved a medical degree from Tokyo Imperial University, but he never practiced medicine.  Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country’s foremost living novelist, and was also widely known as a dramatist.  His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been bestsellers in Japan.  They include \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Dunes, Kangaroo Notebook, The Ark Sakura, The Face of Another, The Box Man,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSecret Rendezvous.\u003c\/i\u003eAuthor of The Woman in the Dunes","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304083837157,"sku":"NP9780375726514","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375726514.jpg?v=1767738502","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-box-man-isbn-9780375726514","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}