Soseki Natsume's Botchan: The Manga Edition: One of Japan's Most Popular Novels of All Time - Now Available in Manga Form!

By Natsume Soseki and Makiko Itoh

"Filled with light, satirical touches." — Donald Keene

A modern classic, Botchan rivals Soseki's famous I Am a Cat in popularity in Japan. This is the funniest of Soseki's novels, a penetrating portrait of a young man's quest to survive the suffocating hypocrisy of everyone around him while remaining true to his beliefs.

Reckless but unfailingly honest, Botchan is the youngest son in a middle-class Tokyo family. Following his graduation from college, he takes a job as a math teacher on the island of Shikoku, far from the city. Thrust into this alien small-town environment, Botchan encounters nothing but trouble from his students and fellow teachers. Among his tormentors are the pompous, two-faced vice-principal; his fawning sidekick—the art teacher; the spineless principal; and a pack of brawny, prankster students — all of whom seem out to get him. Mayhem ensues, but in the end Botchan prevails through honesty and dogged determination.

Recommended for readers ages 14 and up due to explicit language

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Release date: Sep 17, 2024
• ISBN: 9781462925094

Natsume Soseki

Soseki Natsume, pseudónimo literario de Kinnosuke Natsume, naceu en 1867 no seo dunha familia de samurais en decadencia. Cando tiña dous anos, os seus pais dérono en adopción a un dos seus serventes. Estudou lingua inglesa na Universidade de Toquio e tras graduarse comezou a traballar como mestre. En 1900 estableceuse en Inglaterra cunha bolsa do goberno xaponés, pero levou unha vida de miseria. Á súa volta ao Xapón, deu clases na universidade e comezou a publicar novelas: Eu, o gato, A torre de Londres e Botchan, obra que o levaría á fama. Escribiu catorce novelas ao longo da súa vida.

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