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The woman in the dunes / Kōbō Abe ; translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders with drawings by Machi Abe ; introduction by David Mitchell.

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Field name	Details
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.
Published	©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.
Other Names	Mitchell, David writer of introduction.
Series	Methuen Drama modern classics
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Japan -- Fiction . Psychological fiction . Sand dunes -- Fiction . Villages -- Fiction . Women teachers -- Fiction . See Also: Stream of consciousness fiction . Authors: Abe, Kōbō, 1924- . Abe, Machi, 1926-1993 . Mitchell, David . Series: Methuen Drama modern classics .