ISBN |
9780141188522 (paperback) |
Name |
Abe, Kōbō, 1924- author. |
Title |
The woman in the dunes / Kōbō Abe ; translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders with drawings by Machi Abe ; introduction by David Mitchell. |
Edition |
New edition. |
Published |
London : Penguin Books, 2006. |
©1964 |
Description |
239 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. |
Notes |
Translation of Suna no onna, first published 1964. |
Summary |
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 they are pressed into shovelling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village. |
Language note |
Translated from the Japanese. |
Subjects |
Women teachers -- Fiction |
Villages -- Fiction |
Sand dunes -- Fiction |
Japan -- Fiction |
Genre |
Psychological fiction |
Other Names |
Abe, Machi, 1926-1993 illustrator. |
Mitchell, David writer of introduction. |
Series |
Methuen Drama modern classics |
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