Hakobune Sakura-maru

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Abe Kōbō: Hakobune Sakura-maru (Japanese language, 1984, Shinchōsha)

333 pages

Japanese language

Published Jan. 1, 1984 by Shinchōsha.

ISBN:
978-4-10-600641-8
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OCLC Number:
12275474

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Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an "ark" capable of surviving the coming nuclear holocaust and is now in search of his crew. He falls victim, however, to the wiles of a con-man-cum-insect-dealer. In the surreal drama that ensues, the ark is invaded by a gang of youths and a sinister group of elderly people called the Broom Brigade, lead by Mole's odious father, while Mole becomes trapped in the ark's central piece of equipment, a giant toilet powerful enough to flush almost anything, including chopped-up humans, out to sea--Publisher's description.

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