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´Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don´t ever surrender yourself - not to Japan, not to anything´

A shy, unworldly young student has his eyes opened to Tokyo´s bustling metropolis, in this delicate, bitter-sweet work of innocence and experience from Japan´s foremost modern novelist.

Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series

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Natsume Soseki is the representative Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami

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Soseki, Natsume
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) is often considered the greatest modern Japanese novelist. In 1900, his government sent him to England for two years as ´Japan´s first Japanese English literary scholar´, but he had a miserable time there. Returning to Japan, he wrote his greatest novels, including Botchan, Sanshiro and Kokoro, as well as essays, haiku, and kanshi.

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