The Woman in the Dunes
New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage international edition.
Description: 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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.
Series: Vintage International
Target Audience: 850L
ISBN:
0679733787
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F Abe | Southeast | Fiction | In |
Translation of: Suna no onna.
In English and Japanese.
In English and Japanese.