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The woman in the dunes.

Author:	Kōbō Abe
Publisher:	New York, Knopf, 1964.
Edition/Format:	Book : Fiction : English : [1st American ed.]View all editions and formats
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.  Read more...
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