A stunning new translation-the first in more than forty years-of a
major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction
Natsume S?seki's "Kusamakura" follows its nameless young
artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At
the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious
encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the
establishment. Nami, or "beauty," is the center of this elegant
novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the
enigmatic subject of S?seki's word painting. In the author's words,
"Kusamakura" is "a haiku-style novel, that lives through beauty."
Written at a time when Japan was opening its doors to the rest of
the world, "Kusamakura" turns inward, to the pristine mountain
idyll and the taciturn lyricism of its courtship scenes, enshrining
the essence of old Japan in a work of enchanting literary
nostalgia.
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