The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe Groundswell Speaker 2024 fun and genuinely useful

fun and genuinely useful

It could be even more special than you thought… Geologist and passionate pebble spotter Clive Mitchell has created a charming and wonderfully browsable book that is a perfect companion to a day out or holiday

As a child

HardbackPublication: 29 Sept 2022

safe houses and interrogation rooms

The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe Groundswell Speaker 2024 fun and genuinely usefulDazzlingly 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