Secret Rendezvous

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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…

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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.

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