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

By:

Abe, Kōbō [author]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: 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):

Japan -- Fiction

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction

DDC classification:

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Sta. Lucia Branch Fiction Area	Fiction	Fic Ab138w 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	132741d

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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