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Sōseki Natsume
1) I am a cat
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xvi, 638 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era.
2) Botchan
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha International
Language
English
Description
Botchan (1906) is a novel by Natsume Sōseki. Inspired by his experience as a teacher on the island of Shikoko, Sōseki composed a beloved tale of growth and moral decency that continues to be read in Japan and around the world to this day. Filled with humorous asides and heartwarming scenes, Botchan is a classic bildungsroman from one of Japan's most successful twentieth century writers.
Ever since his childhood days in Tokyo, Botchan has experienced...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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 it, the profound cultural shift from one generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early twentieth century"
