The Woman in the Dunes Author:Kobo Abe The Woman in the Dunes, on which the highly acclaimed motion picture was based, is one of the most famous of all contemporary Japanese novels. The story of a man held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand pit in a remote seaside village which is in constant danger from the advance of windblown dunes, it strikingly combines the ... more »elements of a suspense story with those of the modern existentialist novel.« less