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Kobo Abe, Juliet Winters Carpenter: Ark Sakura (2021, Penguin Books, Limited)

384 pages

English language

Published 2021 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-241-45458-9
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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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