Burned map. Secret date. Entered in the ark. Abe K.

Cobo Abe is one of the most brilliant writers of Japan, the star of the post -war Japanese avant -garde. His books are read all over the world, they make films and put up performances. The successor of the traditions of Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia, the forerunner Haruki Murakami, in each of his novels he creates a surreal reality that reforms the reader’s picture of the world, distorts - or clarifies - readership prisms of perception and completely staggering completely. No wonder another famous Japanese author of Kenzaburo Oe called Abe the largest writer in the history of literature. Three novels included in this collection are stories about losses: having gone in search of other people or themselves, a person loses shelter, relatives or himself. These novels are about the beauty, ugliness and in general of the strangeness of the human soul and its clash with the alienness of an incomprehensible, infinitely complex and sometimes hostile world.