{"product_id":"kokoro-paperback","title":"Kokoro (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a\nfigure of truly national stature.”―Haruki Murakami\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe father of modern Japanese literature's best-loved novel, in its first new\nEnglish translation in half a century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nNo collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki's \u003ci\u003eKokoro\u003c\/i\u003e,\nhis most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published\nhere in the first new translation in more than fifty years, \u003ci\u003eKokoro\u003c\/i\u003e―meaning\n\"heart\"―is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two\nunnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls\n\"Sensei.\" Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over\nhis life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing\nindiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt,\nand revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish\nand his student's struggle to understand it, the profound cultural shift from\none generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early twentieth\ncentury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatsume Soseki\u003c\/b\u003e (1867-1916), one of Japan's most\ninfluential modern writers, is widely considered the foremost novelist of the\nMeiji era (1868-1914) and a master of psychological fiction. As well as his\nworks of fiction, his essays, haiku, and kanshi have been influential and are\npopular even today. \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMeredith McKinney \u003c\/b\u003e(translator) holds a PhD in medieval Japanese\nliterature from the University in Canberra, where she teaches in the Japan\nCentre. She lived and taught in Japan for twenty years and now lives near\nBraidwood, New South Wales. Her other translations include \u003ci\u003eRavine and\nOther Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Saigyo\u003c\/i\u003e, and for Penguin\nClassics, \u003ci\u003eThe Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKusamakura\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44643185000655,"sku":"9780143106036","price":29.98,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_c980502f-f4f2-4b7d-af68-2c2ccb63ce38.jpg?v=1761529055","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/kokoro-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}