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The Box Man

KAKōbō Abe
2020
year of publication
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Length
English (United Kingdom)
language
E-book
Format
Publisher
Penguin
ISBN-13
978-01-4199-319-5
EAN
9780141993195
Publication date
2020-10-29
Book
The Box Man · 3 editions
The publisher on this edition

This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed by the box men, slowly becomes drawn in to the anonymity and voyeuristic life inside a box. As his identity slowly slips away and he becomes obsessed with watching an intriguing young nurse, we too become privy to the schizophrenic and seductive unreality of a box man's life.

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Penguin ClassicsSoftcover978-02-4145-459-62020-10-29160 s.VintageSoftcover978-03-7572-651-42001-07-10192 s.