The Woman in the Dunes (Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Hardcover

Abe, Kobo

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9780192820921: The Woman in the Dunes (Twentieth Century Classics S.)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192820923 ISBN 13: 9780192820921

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1987

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This is a fine work from one of Japan's most acclaimed novelists, has also been made into a successful film.

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Review:

"Abe follows with meticulous precision his hero's constantly shifting physical, emotional and psychological states. He also presents...everyday existence in a sand pit with such compelling realism that these passages serve both to heighten the credibility of the bizarre plot and subtly increase the interior tensions of the novel." -- The New York Times Book Review "Some of Kobo Abe's readers will recall Kafka's manipulation of a nightmarish tyranny of the unknown, others Beckett's selection of sites like the sand pit...as a symbol of the undignified human predicament." -- Saturday Review

About the Author:

Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have earned many literary awards and prizes, and have all been bestsellers in Japan. They include THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES, THE ARK SAKURA, THE FACE OF ANOTHER, THE BOX MAN, and THE RUINED MAP.

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