Kangaroo Notebook a Novel
- List Price: $15.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 05/01/1997
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The last novel written before its author's death in 1993, Kangaroo Notebook marries magic realism to social satire. The result is a vision of contemporary Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny.
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When Kobo Abe's gentle, self-effacing narrator contracts a disorder that turns him into a living vegetable patch, he becomes the victim of forces that alternately torture him, fuss over him, and neglect him. In due course he is plunged -- via a self-propelled hospital bed -- into a hell inhabited both by officious child demons and a sexy, bloodthirsty nurse who hopes to collect the "Miss Dracula" medal. Only Japan's most eminent novelist could have assembled these grotesqueries into a work that is not just coherent but funny, touching, and imbued with unexpected meaning.
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