Abe's best short works to date are presented here in this well-crafted collection of fiction which explores many of modern man's dilemmas in an insightful, yet highly surrealistic style. Called by The New York Times, "The bestJapanese novelist (since) Mishima and Kawabata"..., Abe is one of the mosthighly regarded writers in Japan today.— Google Books

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Contents An Irrelevant Death 9 The Crime of S. Karma 35 Dendrocacalia 43 The Life of a Poet 65 Record of a Transformation 79 Intruders 101 Noah's Ark 135 The Special Envoy 151 Beguiled 167 The Bet 183 The Dream Soldier 213 Beyond the Curve 223

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Underwater City and Dendrocacalia An Unrelated Death and The Cliff of Time The Complete Works

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