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The Woman in the Dunes
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by Kobo Abe,
Translated by E. Dale Saunders
Random House, Inc
Due/Published
April 1991, 256 pages,
paper
ISBN
0679733787
One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where, Sisyphus-like, they are pressed into shoveling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village. |
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