{"product_id":"woman-in-the-dunes","title":"Woman In The Dunes","description":"\u003cp\u003eDazzlingly original, Kobo Abe''s \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Dunes \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, and this Penguin Classics edition contains a new introduction by David Mitchell, author of \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNiki 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 villagers have imprisoned him with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit. Tricked into slavery and threatened with starvation if he does not work, Jumpei''s only chance is to shovel the ever-encroaching sand - or face an agonising death. Among the greatest Japanese novels of the twentieth century, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Dunes \u003c\/i\u003ecombines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKobo Abe (1924-93) was born in Tokyo, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. During his life 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the \u003c\/i\u003eDunes, \u003ci\u003eThe Ark Sakura\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Face of Another\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Box Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Ruined Map.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you liked \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Dunes, \u003c\/i\u003eyou might enjoy Albert Camus'' \u003ci\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A haunting Kafkaesque nightmare''\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57306281148798,"sku":"NW9780141188522","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141188522.jpg?v=1778234944","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/woman-in-the-dunes","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}