LoginKusamakura (Penguin Classics)
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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-sty
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Release date: 29 January 2008
ISBN-10 : 0143105191 | ISBN-13: 9780143105190
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Release date: 29 January 2008
ISBN-10 : 0143105191 | ISBN-13: 9780143105190
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