Book description
From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.
From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who…
Why read it?
1 author picked Secret Rendezvous as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book takes Japanese magical realism to a whole new level of absurdity. A man's wife is taken away by ambulance at four in the morning—even though nothing is wrong with her. He goes to the hospital to find her and, instead, finds himself in a seemingly endless complex. As he tracks his wife, he encounters bizarre characters, freakish sexual experiments, and more.
Although the novel is more than a little dark, I was fascinated by the imaginativeness of the setting and situation and the underlying logic.
From Jeffrey's list on delightfully absurd works of fiction.
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