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Secret Rendezvous

Secret Rendezvous

( Japanese - Mikkai ( 密会 ) - 1977 )

novel by Kobo Abe

translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter

Published: Knopf - hardback - 1979 ( 1st US )
ISBN: 0394503724 / 9780394503721

Martin, Secker & Warburg - hardback - 1979 ( 1st UK )
ISBN: 0436000210 / 9780436000218

Perigee Books - paperback - 1981
ISBN: 0399505016 / 9780399505010

Kodansha America Inc. - paperback - 1993
ISBN: 1568360037 / 9781568360034

Vintage Books USA - paperback - 2002
ISBN: 0375726543 / 9780375726545

Synopsis
The bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.
From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that she is perfectly healthy, her bewildered husband realizes that things are not as they should be. His covert explorations reveal that the enormous hospital she was taken to is home to a network of constant surveillance, outlandish sex experiments, and an array of very odd and even violent characters. Within a few days, though no closer to finding his wife, the unnamed narrator finds himself appointed the hospital’s chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he’s a horse.

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