A review by kunalsen
The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe

3.0

I wish the book lived up to the expectation that it generated when I first read the synopsis. The metaphor of someone trapped inside a bowl of moving sand, relentlessly shifting, and defying all attempts to stop it from drowning everything in its path, is so powerful and poignant. Yet, the novel failed to take it where i expected it to go.