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Book Synopsis“Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.”—Haruki Murakami
The father of modern Japanese literature's best-loved novel, in its first new English translation in half a century No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki's
Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years,
Kokoro—meaning heart—is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt, and revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish and his student's struggle to understand i
Trade Review"This elegant novel...suffuses the reader with a sense of old Japan." —
Los Angeles Times "Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature."
—Haruki Murakami
