The Box Man by Kobo Abe

Recommended by Madina Sargand

I wanted to read this summer and I love fiction, so when I got an email from Dr. Livingston with a list of recommended books and saw the title The Box Man, I knew this book would be really interesting. The Box Man is a story about a protagonist who quits his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a cardboard box: he wants to become a box man. He goes to Tokyo and draws on the walls of his box and discusses the outside world of Tokyo. We also learn that there is strong rifleman who wants to shoot the box man. I do not want to spoil the rest of the story but it is a very good read from start to finish.

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