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" The woman in the dunes / "
by Kobo Abé ; translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders ; with drawings by Machi Abé.
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BL
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| Record Number
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956733
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b711103
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| Uniform Title
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Suna no onna.English
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| Main Entry
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Abe, Kōbō,1924-1993.
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| Title & Author
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The woman in the dunes /\ by Kobo Abé ; translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders ; with drawings by Machi Abé.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Vintage international ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Vintage Books,, 1991.
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| Series Statement
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Vintage International
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| Page. NO
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239 pages :: illustrations ;; 21 cm.
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| ISBN
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0679733787
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: 9780679733782
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| Notes
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Translation of: Suna no onna.
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| Abstract
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In this famous postwar Japanese novel, the first of Abe's to be translated into English, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist in pursuit of a rare specimen of beetle, wanders into a strange seaside village, whose residents all live in sandpits. He is taken prisoner, and, along with a widow cast out by the community, he is forced to move into her sandpit and continually shovel away the sand that threatens to take over the village. In Niki's struggles to escape his prison and his developing relationship with the woman, he gradually comes to understand the existential nature of life.
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Psychological fiction, Japanese.
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Psychological fiction.
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Psychological fiction, Japanese.
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Psychological fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Japan, Fiction.
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Japan, Fiction.
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Japan.
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| Dewey Classification
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895.6/35
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| LC Classification
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PL845.B4S813 1991
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