Natsume Soseki | The Gate Penguin Classics edged with knife-sharp black humour

edged with knife-sharp black humour and shot through with moments of startling beauty

the Knight and the Dragons

witness to the horrors of grief

from advertising to ‘gingerism’ and bullying

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Natsume Soseki | The Gate Penguin Classics edged with knife-sharp black humour9781805332510 02 07 26 PB Translated by Francis Mathy Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature Haruki Murakami A sensitive, skilfully written novel by the most widely read Japanese author of modern times Guardian Sosekis prose is so delicate that each page is like looking at a set of dreamy watercolours Telegraph Humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone live in a modest house at the bottom of a cliff.