We learn the protagonist's name at the end of the novel, when a judge's order declares him missing.
We learn the protagonist's name at the end of the novel, when a judge's order declares him missing. The name of the title figure, whose jobs are to search for water and prevent her house from collapsing, is never given. She escapes her imprisonment when she seeks medical attention after being impregnated by the protagonist, an amateur entomologist. Like other works by its author, such as Pitfall and The Face of Another, it was made into a movie by Hiroshi Teshigahara. For 10 points, identify this most famous work of Kobo Abe in which Niki Jumpei is imprisoned with a widow in a sand pit.
We learn the protagonist's name at the end of the novel, when a judge's order declares him missing.
{Woman in the Dunes} or {Suna no Onna}