方舟さくら丸

aka Hakobune Sakura-maru

The Ark Sakura

Author

Kōbō Abe

Language

Japanese

Year

1984

Country

Japan

Genre

Novel

east asiamodern japan

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The Ark Sakura is a novel by the Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe. The novel's protagonist is a recluse who, convinced that the world will end soon, takes up residence in an abandoned mine and then attempts to sell tickets to his "ark" to people he deems worthy of saving from the apocalypse. The novel was originally published in 1984; the English translation by Juliet Winters Carpenter was released in 1988.