A woman in the sands. Abe K.

Kobo Abe is the famous Japanese prose writer and playwright. The scale of his talent is huge, his books are mysterious, fascinating and paradoxical. These peculiar novels-paratroopers tell about people who are under the rule of an obsessive idea or are in a situation similar to a fantastic dream.

This is the most famous work of Kobo Abe - "Woman in the Sands." The main character, an ordinary teacher, obsessed with the dream of finding a new type of insects, disappears without a trace. He turns out to be a prisoner in a strange village, non -stoply filled with sand...