Dazzlingly original,Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century,and this Penguin Classics edition contains a new introduction by David Mitchell,author of Cloud Atlas.
Niki Jumpei,an amateur entomologist,searches the scorching desert for beetles. As night falls he is forced to seek shelter in an eerie village,half-buried by huge sand dunes. He awakes to the terrifying realisation that the villagers have imprisoned him with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit. Tricked into slavery and threatened with starvation if he does not work,Jumpei's only chance is to shovel the ever-encroaching sand - or face an agonising death.
Among the greatest Japanese novels of the twentieth century,The Woman in the Dunes combines the essence of myth,suspense,and the existential novel.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141188522Number of pages: 256Weight: 191 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
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