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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This beautiful novel by one of Japan's most important writers is also one of the most strangely terrifying and memorable books you'll ever read. The Woman in the Dunes is the story of an amateur entomologist who wanders alone into a remote seaside village in pursuit of a rare beetle he wants to add to his collection. But the townspeople take him prisoner. They lower him into the sand-pit home of a young widow, a pariah in the poor community, who the villagers have condemned to a life of shoveling back the ever-encroaching dunes that threaten to bury the town. An amazing book.
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La Femme des sables, Georges-Pierre Bonneau, Abe Kōbō
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- Released
- 1997,
- Book condition
- Very Good
- Price
- €10.49