{"product_id":"9780375726514","title":"The Box Man: A Novel (Vintage International)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWoman in the Dunes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecombines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large cardboard box he wears over his head. Wandering the streets of Tokyo and scribbling madly on the interior walls of his box, he describes the world outside as he sees or perhaps imagines it, a tenuous reality that seems to include a mysterious rifleman determined to shoot him, a seductive young nurse, and a doctor who wants to become a box man himself. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Box Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a marvel of sheer originality and a bizarrely fascinating fable about the very nature of identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51816584446183,"sku":"Fiction: Japan","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3680\/9959\/files\/71NMhVmyCNL._SY342.jpg?v=1771965638","url":"https:\/\/jfbooks.org\/products\/9780375726514","provider":"JF Books | 季風書園","version":"1.0","type":"link"}