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uliseslima 's review for:
The Woman in the Dunes
by Kōbō Abe
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Kind of an odd read. A fun idea (you get lured to the bottom of a hole to dig sand forever), but a lot of his interactions with the woman and particularly the ruminations on and justifications of sex were a bit of a slog.
You do still root for him for a while, but by the end of the book I didn’t really care what happened to any of them.
Also is their poo hauled out of the hole by the men with the buckets or is there a smaller hole filled with fossilised desert tods round the back of the house? They do a lot of pissing but this is never adequately explained.
You do still root for him for a while, but by the end of the book I didn’t really care what happened to any of them.
Also is their poo hauled out of the hole by the men with the buckets or is there a smaller hole filled with fossilised desert tods round the back of the house? They do a lot of pissing but this is never adequately explained.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Slavery
Moderate: Sexual assault
The slavery part is kind of the main plot point of the book - he’s forced to dig sand in a hole.