# The Woman in the Dunes

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- Authors: [Kōbō Abe](https://www.bookquiver.com/kobo-abe)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-852-2
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2006-09-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

One of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, THE WOMAN 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 they are pressed into shovelling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village.