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The Face of Another - Abe, Kobo, and Nagai, Kaori (Introduction by), and Saunders, E. Dale (Translated by)
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The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon he finds that such mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self - a self that is capable of anything. A remorseless meditation on nature, identity, and the social contract, THE FACE OF ANOTHER is an intellectual horror story of the highest ...

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The Face of Another 2006, Penguin Classics, London

ISBN-13: 9780141188539

Mass-market paperback

The Face of Another 2003, Vintage, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780375726538

Trade paperback

The Face of Another 1992, Kodansha

ISBN-13: 9784770016348

Trade paperback

The Face of Another 1980, Perigee Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780399504846

Unknown binding

Face of Another 1969, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

ISBN-13: 9780297177050

Hardcover