Don't judge a book by its cover

Superb literature disguised as smut. A golden 1970s cover for Kobo Abe's Yomiuri Prize-winning novel The Woman in the Dunes.

Superb literature disguised as smut. A golden 1970s cover for Kobo Abe's Yomiuri Prize-winning novel The Woman in the Dunes.

"... I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in its stationary state. Sand not only flows, but this very flow is the sand."

-- Kobe Abe, The Woman in the Dunes