About the Author

Natsume Soseki is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji period (1868-1912). His novels include Botchan and Kokoro. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, Chinese-style poetry, and fairy tales. Yoko Ogihara and Ferenando Cordobés are translators.

Reviews

Soseki's characters offer us a new definition of what Humanism is. --Kenzaburo Oé, author and Nobel Prize winner