Title: Hakobune Sakura Maru
First published: 1984
Description: 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.
Subjects: New York Times reviewed, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Hermits, Fiction, Nuclear bomb shelters, Survival, Nuclear warfare
LC classification: PL845.B4  H2713 1988