Sanshiro

Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the constantly moving real world of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic, the academics, and-most of all-the women, Sanshiro must find his way among the sophisticates that fill his new life. An incisive social and cultural commentary, Sanshiro is also a subtle portrait of first love, tradition, and modernization, and the idealism of youth against the cynicism of middle age.

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Author: Natsume Soseki
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 02/23/2010
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.04w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9780140455625
ISBN10: 0140455620
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age

About the Author
Jay Rubin's translations include many of Haruki Murakami's works.

Haruki Murakami has written thirteen novels, including Kafka on the Shore, as well as numerous other works.