THE FACE OF ANOTHER • Kobo Abe
Alfred A. Knopf / 1966 / 1st American edition
Hardcover / 237 pages
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity and the social contract,The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.
︎ Condition note: A used book in Fine - Near Fine condition. Some light shelfwear and minor cover toning. Binding is tight, pages are bright, clean and free of marks. Hardcover comes wrapped in protective mylar.
Alfred A. Knopf / 1966 / 1st American edition
Hardcover / 237 pages
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity and the social contract,The Face of Another is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.
︎ Condition note: A used book in Fine - Near Fine condition. Some light shelfwear and minor cover toning. Binding is tight, pages are bright, clean and free of marks. Hardcover comes wrapped in protective mylar.