The Ark Sakura
- Kategoria:
- fantasy, science fiction
- Tytuł oryginału:
- Hakobune no Sakura
- Wydawnictwo:
- Vintage
- Data wydania:
- 2009-02-10
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2009-02-10
- Liczba stron:
- 352
- Czas czytania
- 5 godz. 52 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9780307389633
- Tłumacz:
- Juliet Winters Carpenter
A classic from the renowned Japanese novelist about isolation and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, The Ark Sakura is as timely today as it was at its original publication.
In this Kafkaesque allegorical fantasy, 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, led 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.