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The Woman in the Dunes
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The Woman in the Dunes Paperback - 1991

by Kobo Abe

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Vintage. Used - Like New. 1991. Reissue. Paperback. Small publisher's mark on text block. Fine.
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  • Title The Woman in the Dunes
  • Author Kobo Abe
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date 1991-04-16
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # C50450
  • ISBN 9780679733782 / 0679733787
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.22 x 0.53 in (20.47 x 13.26 x 1.35 cm)
  • Reading level 850
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Japan
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90050625
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

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.

From the jacket flap

One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit where, Sisyphus-like, they are pressed into shoveling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village.

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Media reviews

“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 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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