by Kobo Abe · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422637615
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«La mujer de la arena» is the fiction novel by Kōbō Abe, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (223 pages, in Spanish).
An amateur entomologist gets trapped in a village of houses sunk in the sand and is forced to live with a woman in a pit, where the sand threatens to bury them. The novel turns this oppressive setting into a reflection on alienation, identity, and the individual's struggle against forces they do not understand, with an atmosphere combining realism and absurdity.
La mujer de la arena (Suna no onna) is a novel by Japanese author Kōbō Abe. This Spanish edition, translated by Kazuya Sakai, was published by Círculo de Lectores. The work was recognized with the Yomiuri Prize in 1962 and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1967.
Recommended for readers seeking classics of Japanese literature and narratives that explore the human condition from an existential and Kafkaesque perspective.
