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9780141188522 609fb0061cfe3709728326f9 The Woman in the Dunes https://www.midlandbookshop.com/s/607fe93d7eafcac1f2c73ea4/60ae51400edd4c50a9449b50/10836985-l.jpg In this famous postwar Japanese novel, the first of Abe's to be translated into English, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist in pursuit of a rare specimen of beetle, wanders into a strange seaside village, whose residents all live in sandpits. He is taken prisoner, and, along with a widow cast out by the community, he is forced to move into her sandpit and continually shovel away the sand that threatens to take over the village. In Niki's struggles to escape his prison and his developing relationship with the woman, he gradually comes to understand the existential nature of life. 9780141188522
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  • ISBN:9780141188522
  • Author: K?b? Abe,????,David
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics
  • Pages: 239
  • Format: Paperback
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In this famous postwar Japanese novel, the first of Abe's to be translated into English, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist in pursuit of a rare specimen of beetle, wanders into a strange seaside village, whose residents all live in sandpits. He is taken prisoner, and, along with a widow cast out by the community, he is forced to move into her sandpit and continually shovel away the sand that threatens to take over the village. In Niki's struggles to escape his prison and his developing relationship with the woman, he gradually comes to understand the existential nature of life.

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