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The Woman in the Dunes

by Kōbō Abe, Machi Abe, E. Dale Saunders

1991•Vintage•EN
About the book

The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe, Machi Abe, E. Dale Saunders

Reading profile

Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

Best for readers like The Wisdom Collector. Which reader are you?

Insights from The Woman in the Dunes

“The sand never rested. It crept along the surface of the ground like a living thing.”

Living in a giant sand pit sounds like a nightmare. But somehow Niki Junpei finds a strange rhythm in the constant shoveling.

“Was she working to live, or living to work?”

The woman in the hole just accepts her life. Her quiet patience is more terrifying than the actual trap.

Sand gets into every single crack. It ruins clothes and skin and souls. It eventually becomes the only thing that matters.

“The city was a place where one could easily get lost in the crowd.”

Junpei spent his whole life trying to be unique. Once he was trapped, he realized nobody was even looking for him.

Details
Published
1991
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN
9780679733782
Language
EN

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