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Hakobune Sakura Maru

by Abe Kōbō, Juliet Winters Carpenter · 1984

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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, lead 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--Publisher's description.

New York Times reviewedNear and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)HermitsFictionNuclear bomb sheltersSurvivalNuclear warfare