Kusamakura
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0143105191
ISBN-13
9780143105190
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 31st, 2008
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
150 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 12.90 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction: literary and generalClassic fiction (pre c 1945)Fiction in translation
Ksh 1,800.00
Werezi Extended Catalogue
Delivery in 14 days
1 copies in stock
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Delivery in 14 days
Secure
Quality
Fast
Features a portrayal of an artist who opposes convention and logic, and shuns emotional involvement. This book is a haikuesque novel infused with the author's musings on art and nature.
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.
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.
Get Kusamakura by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Penguin Books Ltd and it has pages.
