SANSHIRO

Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head Don t ever surrender yourself not to Japan not to anything Soseki s work of gentle humour and doomed innocence depicts twenty three year old Sanshiro a recent graduate from a provincial college as he begins university life in the big city of Tokyo Baffled and excited by the traffic the academics and most of all the women Sanshiro must find his way amongst the sophisticates that fill his new life An incisive social and cultural commentary Sanshiro is also a subtle study of first love tradition and modernization and the idealism of youth against the cynicism of middle age This is a Clothbound Classics edition of Soseki s beloved novel designed by the award winning Coralie Bickford Smith These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high quality colourful and tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Masterfully translated by Jay Rubin this edition also includes an introduction by Haruki Murakami