Authors:
Abe, Kōbō Translated by: Lenkauskienė, Dalia
Published on: 1987
One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, “The Women 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, Sisyphus-like, they are pressed into shoveling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village.