The Woman in the Dunes
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ISBN: 9780141188522
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 16 Nov 2006
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
New to Penguin Modern Classics
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.
ISBN: 9780141188522
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 16 Nov 2006
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
New to Penguin Modern Classics
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.
