The woman in the dunes / Kobo Abe ; introduced by Anthony Thwaite ; [translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders ; with drawings by Machi Abe].
Publisher:
Charles Tuttle Company,
Copyright Date:
1987, c1964
Description:
xiii, 239 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Other Titles:
Suna no onna. English
Summary:
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.
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