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On one level a meditation on the changing face of Japanese culture and its attitudes towards honor, friendship, love, and death as well as a sly subversion of all of these things, this novel centers around the friendship between the narrator and the man he calls Sensei, who is haunted by... read more
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First Sentence edit
YESTERDAY a telegram from Fukuoka announced that a desperate criminal captured there would be brought for trial to Kumamoto to-day, on the train due at noon.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 744 of 1271 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Thirty-Nine Steps, and followed by Locus Solus.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Natsume Sōseki (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Horiguchi Daigaku (Translator)
- Georges Bonneau (Translator)
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Original Language: Japanese
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Country: Japan
Publication Date: 1914
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Page Count: 256
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: Japan
Publication Date: 1914
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 256
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- Dewey: 895.6'84
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