The inhabitants of a remote seaside village imprison a Japanese biologist in a deep sand pit.—Baker & Taylor
Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. With drawings by Machi Abe.
"During my time at home, I read The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe. It's a psychological portrait of an amateur entomologist who finds himself in an untenable situation when he visits an isolated community on the Japanese coast and is tricked into staying overnight in a house in a deep sand pit with a young widow and is made a virtual prisoner, subject to the will of the community. It's been a few years since I watched the film based on it, but now I'm eager to revisit it to see how Abe adapted it for the screen since so much of the novel takes place in the protagonist's head as his various plans of escape fail and his mental state deteriorates."—Submitted by Craig C., Access & Content Services
