Kusamakura - Natsume Sōseki, Meredith McKinney (Translator) torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Art Asia Asian Literature Classics Fiction Japan Japanese Literature Literature Novels Poetry

Written by Natsume Sōseki, Meredith McKinney (Translator)
Read by Kotaro Watanabe, Elizabeth Jasicki
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

A stunning new English translation - the first in more than 40 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.

©2020 Natsume Soseki (P)2021 Penguin Audio

Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
Release date: 08-10-21