Kokoro

By Natsume Soseki
Introduction by Meredith McKinney
Translated by Meredith McKinney
Notes by Meredith McKinney

By Natsume Soseki
Introduction by Meredith McKinney
Translated by Meredith McKinney
Notes by Meredith McKinney

By Natsume Soseki
Read by Kotaro Watanabe and Elizabeth Jasicki
Introduction by Meredith McKinney
Translated by Meredith McKinney
Notes by Meredith McKinney

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    About Kokoro

    The great Japanese author’s most famous novel, in its first new English translation in half a century
     
    No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years, Kokoro—meaning “heart”—is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls “Sensei.” Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt, and revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish and his student’s struggle to understand it, the profound cultural shift from one generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early twentieth century.

    About Kokoro

    The great Japanese author’s most famous novel, in its first new English translation in half a century
     
    No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years, Kokoro—meaning “heart”—is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls “Sensei.” Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt, and revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish and his student’s struggle to understand it, the profound cultural shift from one generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early twentieth century.

    About Kokoro

    The great Japanese author’s most famous novel, in its first new English translation in half a century
     
    No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years, Kokoro—meaning “heart”—is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls “Sensei.” Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt, and revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish and his student’s struggle to understand it, the profound cultural shift from one generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early twentieth century.

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    Praise

    “This elegant novel…suffuses the reader with a sense of old Japan.” —Los Angeles Times 

    “Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.” —Haruki Murakami

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Feb 23, 2010 | 256 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143106036

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    Published by Penguin Classics
    Feb 23, 2010 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9781101195819

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    Published by Penguin Audio
    Aug 10, 2021 | 564 Minutes | ISBN 9780593417010

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