Description: A stunning new English translation—the first in more than forty years—of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction
Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura—meaning “grass pillow”—follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or beauty, is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's word painting. In the author's words, Kusamakura is a haiku-style novel, that lives through beauty. Written at a time when Japan was opening its doors to the rest of the world, Kusamakura turns inward, to the pristine mountain idyll and the taciturn lyricism of its courtship scenes, enshrining the essence of old Japan in a work of enchanting literary nostalgia.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Kusamakura
Item Length: 7.7 in
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Author: Natsume Soseki
Original Language: Japanese
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Psychological, Classics, Literary
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2008
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 5 oz
Number of Pages: 192 Pages, 176 Pages
