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The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe, E. Dale Saunders (Translator) Gwen Adshead provides fresh andDazzlingly original, Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, and this Penguin Classics edition contains a new introduction by David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas. Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist, searches the scorching desert for beetles. As night falls he is forced to seek shelter in an eerie village, half buried by huge sand dunes. He awakes to the terrifying realisation that the