Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phenomenon of people who have decided to abandon society and live in boxes on the Tokyo streets, he has found himself drawn into the anonymity and voyeurism of their life.

As he becomes obsessed with spying on a young nurse, his identity slips away, in Kobo Abe’s eerie, disorienting and seductive masterpiece of unease.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 160
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780241454596
ISBN 10: 024145459X