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Botchan

by Joel Cohn, Natsume Sōseki
Botchan - Thryft
Botchan - Thryft

Rebellion meets conservative Japan; timeless classic.

Botchan is a must-read for those who enjoy rebellious characters and witty, humorous writing. Set in southern Japan, the book offers a unique glimpse into the country's social norms and values. The protagonist, Botchan, is a young man who challenges the system and refuses to conform to tradition, making for an entertaining and relatable read.

  • Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2006)
  • Premi Llibreter de narrativa (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Botchan

by Joel Cohn, Natsume Sōseki
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ISBN: 9784770030481
Authors: Joel Cohn, Natsume Sōseki
Publisher: Kodansha USA
Date of Publication: 2007-03-16
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.64
(rated by 12938 readers)

Description

Like The Catcher in the Rye or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Botchan, a hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, is a classic of its kind. Among Japanese readers both young and old it has enjoyed a timeless popularity, making it, according to Donald Keene, "probably the most widely read novel in modern 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, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; and the result is a chain of collisions large and small.Much of the story seems to occur in summer, against the drone of cicadas, and in many ways this is a summer book light, funny, never slow-moving. Here, in a lively new translation much better suited to Western tastes than any of its forebears, Botchan's homespun appeal is all the more apparent, and even those who have never been near the sunlit island on which these calamitous episodes take place should find in it uninterrupted entertainment.
 

Rebellion meets conservative Japan; timeless classic.

Botchan is a must-read for those who enjoy rebellious characters and witty, humorous writing. Set in southern Japan, the book offers a unique glimpse into the country's social norms and values. The protagonist, Botchan, is a young man who challenges the system and refuses to conform to tradition, making for an entertaining and relatable read.

  • Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2006)
  • Premi Llibreter de narrativa (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.