In this unnerving fable from one of Japan\"s greatest novelists, a recluse known as \"Mole\" retreats to a vast underground bunker, only to find that strange guests, booby traps and a giant toilet may prove even greater obstacles than nuclear disaster....

It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man\"s wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with her. As he sets out to find her, he finds himself in the corridors of a vast underground hospital, where he encounters sinister medics, freakish sexual experiments and the unmistakable feeling of being watched....

A private detective is hired to find a missing person, but nothing is normal about this case. Why has the beautiful, alcoholic wife of the vanished salesman waited over half a year to search for him? Why are the only clues a photo and a matchbox?...

\"This is the record of a box man\". Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls....

The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable....

One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel....

The large increases in foreign capital flows coming into the U.S. from foreign central banks have stimulated research as to their effect on U.S. interest rates. This book seeks to shed light on this topic, and analyzes its macroeconomic implications, by examining the experience of Japan\"\"s foreign exchange policy from 2000 to 2005....

Dazzlingly original, Kobo Abe\"s The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, and this Penguin Classics edition contains a new introduction by David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas. Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist, searches the scorching desert for beetles....

One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel....