TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abe,Kōbō
AU  - Saunders,E.Dale
AU  - Abe,Machi
TI  - The woman in the dunes
SN  - 9780679733782
U1  - Fic 
PY  - 1991///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Japan
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Translation of: Suna no onna
N2  - 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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