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The Woman in the Dunes

novel by Abe Kōbō
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The Woman in the Dunes, novel by Abe Kōbō, published in Japanese as Suna no onna in 1962. This avant-garde allegory is esteemed as one of the finest Japanese novels of the post-World War II period; it was the first of Abe’s novels to be translated into English. The protagonist of The Woman in the Dunes is Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist who, on a weekend trip from the city, discovers a bizarre village in the dunes where residents live in deep sand pits. Imprisoned with a widow in one of the pits, he must shovel the omnipresent sand that ...(100 of 167 words)

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