Kokoro
$20.44
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
11 June 2010
Summary
“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 “h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143106036 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143106031 |
| Author: | Natsume Soseki |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 11 June 2010 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Translated Texts |
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Critics 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
About The Author
Natsume Soseki
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), one of Japan’s most influential modern writers, is widely considered the foremost novelist of the Meiji era (1868-1914) and a master of psychological fiction. As well as his works of fiction, his essays, haiku, and kanshi have been influential and are popular even today.
Meredith McKinney (translator) holds a PhD in medieval Japanese literature from the University in Canberra, where she teaches in the Japan Centre. She lived and taught in Japan for twenty years and now lives near Braidwood, New South Wales. Her other translations include Ravine and Other Stories, The Tale of Saigyo, and for Penguin Classics, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, and Kusamakura.
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