Download or read book The Ark Sakura written by Kōbō Abe and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1988 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist of Abe's creation, nicknamed Mole by himself and Pig by others, is a dreamer and something of a mad inventor. He turns an underground quarry into an ark that can survive a nuclear war and starts to recruit passengers to accompany him on a voyage.