Niki Jumpei, a modest amateur entomologist, wanted to spend three days of his vacation on the coast and add to his collection of beetles and butterflies. Instead, he found himself trapped—in a pit amidst boundless sands, in a house built on sand. Here lives a woman who fights day and night against this relentless sand that threatens to bury the house. This sand is like death itself, like hopelessness, grinding every hope into dust, yet demanding a daily battle against it. And in its depths lurks life—water...
"The Woman in the Dunes" is a cult work by the famous Japanese novelist and playwright Kōbō Abe. Parable, science fiction, grotesque, philosophical reflection, psychological experiment, and metaphorical confession are organically fused in this simple and laconic narrative, which draws you in like quicksand.
Author: Kōbō Abe
Translator: Vladimir Grivnin
Pages: 266 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 189x122x11 mm
