The woman in the dunes

Abe Kobo, Kobo Abe • Vintage Books • ISBN-13 978‑0679733782

The woman in the dunes coverThe woman in the dunes cover

The woman in the dunes

Abe Kobo, Kobo Abe • Vintage Books

This edition of Woman in the Dunes

ISBN-10: 0679733787 · ISBN-13: 978‑0679733782 · 1962 · Vintage International Trade Paperback

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An entomologist is held captive in a remote, sand-swept village, forced into a Sisyphean existence that challenges his perception of freedom and human purpose.

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Publisher: Vintage Books
PaperbackVintage International Trade Paperback1962
Pages: 239Language: Japanese

Contributors

Author: Abe KoboAuthor: Kobo AbeTranslator: editor], Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunstmuseum Bern ; [catalogue, Christofer Conrad, Annabel Zettel ; translations, Paul Aston, Bronwen Saunders

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Inferred: DunasInferred: EntomologistsInferred: Fiction, PsychologicalInferred: Japanese Psychological FictionInferred: Japan, FictionInferred: Novela Psicológica

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Cornerstone of: Japanese Postwar Literature

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