Here he seeks, not so much health, as simple explanations for what is happening to him and the strange people he meets: abusive ferrymen, waif-like demons, vampire nurses, and a chiropractor who runs a karate school and has a side job carrying out euthanasia procedures. Our Best Sale Yet Add 4 Books Priced Under 5 To Your Cart Learn more. Hooked to a penile catheter and an IV bottle, the narrator begins a harrowing journey on his hospital bed through the underworld that seems to lie beneath the city streets. Buy Kangaroo Notebook Hardcover Book By: Kobo Abe from as low as 22.11. After battling to be seen in his local medical clinic, he enters a hospital, where a physician prescribes hot-spring therapy in Hell Valley. The next morning he wakes to discover that he has daikon radish sprouts emerging from his shins. In the first half of the book the protagonist is connected to a bag with a male cuttlefish through the cable/catheter in his collarbone. One morning, while pondering the stress of his latest assignment at his uninspiring job, the narrator of Kangaroo Notebook feels an itching on his leg that seems to indicate an unusual hair loss. Books shelved as kobo-abe: The Woman in the Dunes by Kb Abe, The Face of Another by Kb Abe, The Box Man by Kb Abe, Beyond the Curve by Kb Abe, an. Im currently reading this novel by Kobo Abe. Kangaroo Notebook ( カンガルー・ノート, Kangarū Nōto) is a novel written by the Japanese writer Kōbō Abe between ca. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment that repulses his doctor but provides the.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |