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Soseki Natsume is considered to be one of Japan's most beloved and respected authors. And Then is ranked as one of his most insightful and stirring novels.

Daisuke, the protagonist, is a man in his twenties who is struggling with his personal purpose and identity as well as the changing social landscape of Meiji-era Japan. As Japan enters the Twentieth Century, ancient customs give way to western ideals, and Daisuke works to resolve his feelings of disconnection and abandonment during this time of change. Thanks to...

A hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, Natsume Soseki's Botchan has enjoyed a timeless popularity in Japan. The setting is Japan's deep south, where the author himself spent some time teaching English in a boys' school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city and with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges. The result is a light, funny, fast-paced novel....

Einer der berühmtesten Romane der modernen japanischen Literatur - höchst amüsant. Ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur zum Sonderpreis.

»Gestatten, ich bin ein Kater! Unbenamst bislang.« Mit diesen Worten stellt sich der bekannteste Kater der japanischen Literaturgeschichte seinem Publikum vor. Bestens gebildet, hat er zwar noch keine Maus gefangen, in der Beobachtung von Menschen und ihren rätselhaften Marotten aber ist er ein Meister. Um diese Gabe zu entfalten, hat er sich den richtigen Haushalt ausgesucht, denn sein Herr gibt ihm zu sarkastischen Kommentaren und Witzeleien...

Recovering in a clinic following surgery, thirty-year-old Tsuda Yoshio receives visits from a procession of intimates: his coquettish young...

Written over the course of 1904-1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him.

A classic of...