What is The Woman in the Dunes?
{{Italic title}} {{About||the movie made from this novel|Woman in the Dunes}} {{Infobox book | name = | author = [[Kōbō Abe]] | language = Japanese | genre = [[Fiction]] | publisher = [[Shinchosha]] | isbn = 9784106006036 | pub_date = June 8, 1962 | translator = [[E. Dale Sauders]] | english_pub_date = 1964 | award = 14th [[Yomiuri Prize]] (1962) }} {{Nihongo|'''''The Woman in the Dunes'''''|砂の女|Suna no Onna|lead=yes}} is a 1962 [[novel]] by Japanese writer [[Kōbō Abe]]. It won the [[Yomiuri Prize]] that year. It was translated into English by [[E. Dale Saunders]] in 1964. It also got made into an [[Woman in the Dunes|award-winning movie]] by [[Hiroshi Teshigahara]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7o8pq6G_dYC|title=The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography|last=IV|first=Stuart Galbraith|date=2008-05-16|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-1-4616-7374-3|language=en}}</ref> ==Plot== It is August 1955. A school teacher from [[Tokyo]] called Jumpei Niki<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cUcHvd-KYUUC|title=Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching|last=Miller|first=Barbara Stoler|date=1994-02-17|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-0-7656-3165-7|language=en}}</ref> goes to a fishing village. He is there to collect insects. Jumpei misses the last bus back to Tokyo. Villagers lead him to a house in some [[Dune|dunes]]. In the house lives a [[widow]]. The house also keeps filling up with sand which the woman clears away. The next day, Jumpei wakes up to find the [[ladder]] out of the house gone. To receive water from the villagers, he must live with the widow and dig away the sand. At one point, Jumpei escapes, but is chased down by the villagers. The pair in the house discover a water [[reservoir]] while digging in the sand. Jumpei now has no reason to help dig away the sand, yet at this point, he continues his [[duty]]. Jumpei and