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Kusamakura

Kusamakura

Soseki, Natsume
McKinney, Meredith
McKinney, Meredith

Paperback

Series: Penguin Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0143105191
ISBN13: 9780143105190
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Jan 29 2008
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.56 Depth: 7.04
Language: English
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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