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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1977 novel by Kōbō Abe}}<br />
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'''''Secret Rendezvous''''' (密会, ''Mikkai'') is a 1977 novel by [[Kōbō Abe]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Shinoda |first=Hajime |date=January 1, 1980 |title=SECRET RENDEZVOUS |journal=[[Japan Quarterly]] |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=112–113 |id={{ProQuest|1304281200}}}}</ref> The English translation by [[Juliet Winters Carpenter]] was published by [[Knopf]] on August 27, 1979.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kobo-abe/secret-rendezvous/ |title=Secret Rendezvous |date=1979-08-01 |work=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |issn=00426598 |id={{ProQuest|916900965}} }}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
In the middle of the night, an ambulance arrives to take away a woman who appears to be completely healthy. Her husband, a sales representative for an athletic shoe company, attempts to track her whereabouts the next morning, but can find no trace of her once he arrives at the hospital.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://archive.org/details/secretrendezvous00kobo ''Secret Rendezvous''] at the [[Internet Archive]] {{inlang|en}}<br />
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