However, when Junpei realizes that she will be doing this all night, he gives up and goes to bed instead. She cooks dinner for him and then starts shoveling sand into cans with help from another person at the top of the hole.
Junpei goes down the rope ladder where an attractive woman about his age greets him. After hearing the answer, he offers him a place to sleep for the night in one of the holes. In one part of the village, there are deep holes that look like they were dug by hand.Īn old man comes to Junpei and asks who he is. On the way to the sea, he passes through a village where people are poor and struggling. He wants to find a new kind of beetle in the dunes, which he hopes will give his life more purpose and value. The book won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, was translated into English, and adapted into a film that won an award at Cannes Film Festival.Ī schoolteacher named Niki Junpei is unhappy with his life. It’s about a schoolteacher who gets trapped in sand and has to dig for his survival. The Woman in the Dunes (Suna no Onna) is a novel written by Kōbō Abe. 1-Page Summary of The Woman In The Dunes Overall Summary
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