This is one of those books best read in solitude—its atmosphere lingers long after you've finished. On the surface, little seems to happen, yet events unfold with a deliberate, almost hypnotic pace—like sand slipping through an hourglass.
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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 they are pressed into shovelling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village
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Woman in the Dunes, Abe Kōbō
- Language
- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- Woman in the Dunes
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Abe Kōbō
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Released
- 2006
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0141188529
- ISBN13
- 9780141188522
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Classics, World War II, Japan, Adapted for Film, Mysterious, Mysteries, Japanese Literature, Magical Realism, Sand
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- 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 they are pressed into shovelling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village