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  • Published: 7 January 2010
  • ISBN: 9780140455625
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99
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Sanshiro




Jay Rubin's translation of Soseki's cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics

One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.

  • Published: 7 January 2010
  • ISBN: 9780140455625
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

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About the author

Natsume Soseki

Nick Bradley is the author of THE CAT AND THE CITY (2020) and FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN (2023). In 2024 he was chosen by The British Council and The National Centre for Writing as one of ten rising stars in UK writing. His work has so far been translated into twenty languages.

He lived in Japan for many years where he worked as a translator, and currently teaches on the Creative Writing master's programme at the University of Cambridge and also taught on the Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA at UEA.

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