East Asian Literary Fiction

Sanshirō

by Natsume Sōseki

Twenty-three-year-old Sanshirō leaves his sleepy countryside home for Tokyo's restless, modern world—its university, its women, its ceaseless motion. Natsume Sōseki captures the exhilaration and alienation of youth encountering modernity, balancing humor and poignant observation.

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