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The woman in the dunes / by Kobo Abé ; translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders ; with drawings by Machi Abé.
Van Pelt Library PL845.B4 S813 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993.
- Series:
- Vintage International (Series)
- Vintage International
- Standardized Title:
- Suna no onna. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--Fiction.
- Japan.
- Psychological fiction, Japanese.
- Psychological fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction, Japanese.
- Psychological fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage international edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
- Language Note:
- In English and Japanese.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Suna no onna.
- ISBN:
- 0679733787
- 9780679733782
- OCLC:
- 24467817
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