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The woman in the dunes / by Kobo Abe ; translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders ; with drawings by Machi Abe

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1991Edition: First Vintage international editionDescription: 239 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780679733782
Uniform titles:
  • Suna no onna. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • Fic
Summary: In this famous postwar Japanese novel, the first of Abe's to be translated into English, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist in pursuit of a rare specimen of beetle, wanders into a strange seaside village, whose residents all live in sandpits. He is taken prisoner, and, along with a widow cast out by the community, he is forced to move into her sandpit and continually shovel away the sand that threatens to take over the village. In Niki's struggles to escape his prison and his developing relationship with the woman, he gradually comes to understand the existential nature of life.
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Translation of: Suna no onna.

In this famous postwar Japanese novel, the first of Abe's to be translated into English, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist in pursuit of a rare specimen of beetle, wanders into a strange seaside village, whose residents all live in sandpits. He is taken prisoner, and, along with a widow cast out by the community, he is forced to move into her sandpit and continually shovel away the sand that threatens to take over the village. In Niki's struggles to escape his prison and his developing relationship with the woman, he gradually comes to understand the existential nature of life.

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