Sanshiro
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Sanshiro

By (author) Natsume Soseki, Introduction by Haruki Murakami

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Twenty-three-year-old Sanshiro Ogawa leaves his provincial home to begin university life in the bustling, rapidly modernizing city of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the city’s frantic energy, the intellectual rigor of his professors, and the sophisticated people he meets—particularly the mysterious and captivating Mineko—Sanshiro must navigate the complexities of first love and social etiquette.

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SKU: 9780241739839

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ISBN: 9780241739839

Book Format: Hardback

Pages: 288

Dimensions: 13.5 × 2 × 20.7 cm

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  • Hardback | 288 pages
  • 13.5 × 2 × 20.7 cm | 395
  • 06 November 2025
  • Penguin Books Ltd
  • United Kingdom
  • English

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Natsume Soseki

3 Published Books

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.Jay Rubin is an American translator and academic. He is the translator of several of Haruki Murakami's major works, including Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Natsume Soseki's The Miner and Sanshiro and Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories. He is the author of Making Sense of Japanese, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words and a novel, The Sun Gods.

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Jay Rubin

11 Published Books