|aThe woman in the dunes /|cby Kobo Abe ; translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders ; with drawings by Machi Abe.
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|a1st Vintage International ed.
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|aNew York :|bVintage International/Vintage Books,|c1991.
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|a239 p. :|bill. ;|c21 cm
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|aTranslation of: 砂の女
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|aIn 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