Secret Rendezvous (novel)

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Author	Kōbō Abe
Original title	密会
Language	Japanese
Published	1977
Publication place	Japan

Secret Rendezvous (密会, Mikkai) is a 1977 novel by Kōbō Abe.

Synopsis

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In the middle of the night, an ambulance arrives to take away a woman who appears to be completely healthy. Her husband, a sales representative for an athletic shoe company, attempts to track her whereabouts the next morning, but can find no trace of her once he arrives at the hospital.

Publication history

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The English translation by Juliet Winters Carpenter was first published by Knopf in 1979.

External links

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Secret Rendezvous at the Internet Archive

v t e Works by Kōbō Abe
Novels	Beasts Head for Home (1957) Inter Ice Age 4 (1958) The Woman in the Dunes (1962) The Face of Another (1964) The Ruined Map (1967) Secret Rendezvous (1977) The Ark Sakura (1984) Kangaroo Notebook (1991)
Plays	The Man Who Turned Into A Stick (1957)

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