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Kokoro
Hardcover
Publisher: Greenpoint Books, LLC
Published: Oct 15 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
The novel sustains throughout its length something approaching poetry, and it is rich in understanding and insight. -Anthony West, The New Yorker
KOKORO (the heart of things) explores emotions familiar to everyone-love and hate, hope and despair, companionship and loneliness.
Sensei, a man seen against the rich background of old-new Japan, is outwardly successful; he has position, wealth, a charming wife. Deep in the heart of things, he is harried with a profound sense of isolation whose cure lies only in faith, madness, or death. This book is the story of his long-hidden secret, divulged to a young friend who is threatened with a similar dilemma. The genius of Soseki, Japan's first great modern novelist, lies in his ability to express universal emotions with the beautiful restraint of the Japanese spirit.
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