- Fiction, Translations into English, Japanese fiction, Meiji period
"Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura 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.
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Contemplative, grave, character-led and intimate.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- 夏目漱石
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143105190
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