A gorgeous new clothbound edition of Soseki's cherished novel with an introduction by Haruki
Murakami '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 Penguin Classics edition of Soseki's beloved novel is translated by Jay Rubin with
an introduction by Haruki Murakami.
