The Woman in the Dunes
$27.15
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
16 April 1991
Summary
A classic of twentieth-century Japanese fiction, this existential novel—which David Mitchell has called “devious, addictive…. Never less than compulsive”—tells of a man and a woman forced into cohabitation at the bottom of a sand pit.
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodgin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679733782 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679733787 |
| Author: | Kobo Abe, Kaobao Abe |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 1991 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 130mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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Critics Review
“Devious, addictive… . Never less than compulsive… . Abe is an accomplished stylist.” -David Mitchell
“Devious, addictive… . Never less than compulsive… . Abe is an accomplished stylist.” —David Mitchell “Abe follows with meticulous precision his hero’s constantly shifting physical, emotional and psychological states.” —The New York Times Book Review “As is true of Poe and Kafka … Abe creates on the page an unexpected impulsion. One continues reading, on and on.” —The New Yorker
About The Author
Kobo Abe
Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924 and grew up in Mukden, Manchuria, during World War II. In 1948 he received a medical degree from Tokyo Imperial University, but he never practiced medicine. Considered one of Japan’s foremost novelists, his most famous works include The Face of Another (1964), The Box Man (1973), Secret Rendezvous (1977), and The Ark Sakura (1984). All of Abe’s books have been bestsellers in Japan and he was the recipient of numerous literary awards and prizes, including the Yomiuri Prize for The Woman in the Dunes in 1962. He collaborated with director Hiroshi Teshigahara on film adaptations of four of his novels-including The Woman in the Dunes-and was also widely known as a dramatist. He died in 1993.
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