The Face of Another Zhang Yihe on South India’s Malabar Coast

on South India’s Malabar Coast

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The Face of Another Zhang Yihe on South India’s Malabar CoastLike an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accidenta man who has lost his face and, with it, his 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