Sand Girl
About This Novel
"Sand Girl" is Kobo Abe's most representative novel and a representative masterpiece of modern Japanese literature. It has received high praise from around the world and is called "a great harvest of modern Japanese literature". A man who went to the seaside dunes to collect insects accidentally entered a sand cave home where only one woman lived. He was imprisoned in it and could only dig sand day after day. He tried many ways to escape. After repeated failures, the man gradually adapted to the life in the sand cave. When he finally got the chance to escape, he had given up trying. The novel uses realistic techniques to express unrealistic and incredible plots, depicting the boring absurdity of ordinary people's daily lives, as well as the essence and truth of life that exists in it. The novel was published in 1962 and won the Yomiuri Literature Prize the following year. It was adapted into a movie in 1964 and has been translated and published in more than 20 countries and regions. Won the French 1967 Best Foreign Literature Award.
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