The face of another
Abe, Kōbō, 1924-19932006
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The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable.
Main title:
The face of another / Kobo Abe ; translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders.
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Edition:
[New ed.].
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2006.
Collation:
xi, 237 p. ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Previous ed. of this translation: New York: Knopf, 1966; London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969.
ISBN:
9780141188539 (pbk)
Dewey class:
895.635
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
425858
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