{"product_id":"the-woman-in-the-dunes","title":"The Woman in the Dunes","description":"\u003cp\u003eKōbō Abe's 1962 novel strands an amateur entomologist in a sand pit with a woman whose nightly work is shoveling out the dunes that threaten to bury her house. The setup is existential; the execution is obsessively physical. Sand gets into everything: food, sleep, sex, thought. It is one of the few genuinely unsettling novels that also works as a page-turner, partly because Abe never lets his protagonist stop digging long enough to rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVintage's edition uses the E. Dale Saunders translation and presents the novel in a compact paperback format. Abe's sand is both setting and antagonist, a substance that erases the distinction between inside and outside. A classic that earns its reputation without asking to be liked, best approached by readers who want fiction to get under the skin and stay there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48479534710996,"sku":"0394718143","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/5410\/7860\/files\/9780394718149.jpg?v=1786814589","url":"https:\/\/checkout.vagaboundbooks.com\/products\/the-woman-in-the-dunes","provider":"Vagabound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}