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The Woman in the Dunes

Kōbō Abe,

Machi Abe (Illustrator),

E. Dale Saunders (Translator)

Start date: February 8, 2017

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Feb 22, 2017 Paloma rated it liked it

Shelves: owned, 2017-popsugar-reading-challenge, reviewed-reseñados, literatura-japonesa, reading-challenge-2017

I am not sure how to describe this book and I guess it will take sometime for me to decide if I liked it or not. It was a tough read for me, not because it was bad but it was very philosophical? I am not sure if that correctly describes this story. Many times I had to stop reading because I felt overwhelmed and trapped in the story. I know that this is actually what makes a good book, a classic -when the story completly captures us and makes us feel. However, the feeling was not pleasant -I felt ...more

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Jan 17, 2018 Gabyal rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: cafeteria-audrey, pop-2018

Este libro es horriblemente claustrofóbico y espeluznante, no me gustó. Creo que no es un libro para todos. La arena está por doquier. ¿Cuántas de nuestras vidas consisten en tratar frenéticamente de mantenernos a flote? La vida puede ser tan infructuosa como un hombre atrapado bajo las dunas de arena cavando a vivir ... o viviendo para cavar. ¿Trabajamos para vivir o vivir para trabajar?
Es desgastante o al menos lo fue para mi. Vi como se presenta la tristeza nacida de la rutina de la vida diar ...more

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