Kusamakura

KusamakuraA 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 01/29/2008
ISBN: 9780143105190
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.04h x 5.56w x 0.45d