In the canon
The Woman in the Dunes
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1962
- Originally in
- Originally in Japanese
- Pages
- Pages 190
An amateur insect collector misses the last bus home and is lowered into a sand pit where a woman lives, shovelling the dunes back every night; escape slowly stops being the point.
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.