Secret Rendezvous

Book Name : Secret Rendezvous
Author : Kobo Abe


What is it about : The story started with an ambulance arriving at mid-night and took away a man' wife, leaving only faint clues regarding her illness and where-about. The man set off on a journey of "search and rescue" mission and found himself entangled in a world of bizarre sexual experiments in a hospital full of weird happenings.

Some thoughts after having read the book : One of the most un-comprehensible stories I had ever come across. At times fantastical, at times mind-boggling but never straight-forward. The story was peopled by a strange cast : the man-in-charge of the hospital was a half man-horse hybrid; an adolescent girl with a "bone-melting" illness and finally ended up a pulp of flabby human skin at her last gasp of life, a doctor in permanent arousal even in a state of comatose and the mysterious wife-in-question was never fully located. Ha hum.

Would I recommend this book to you : The Readers should not expect to make sense of the story or attempt to find logical coherence; instead if you could not find a better book, then perhaps read this fantasy for its exasperating difference.

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