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A stunning new translation-the first in more than forty years-of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura 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.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic...

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Author

Natsume Soseki; Meredith McKinney; Meredith McKinney

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101097557

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Poetry

Rating

4.5 / 5 (177 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14