A modern classic in Japan on par with "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" or "The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan" is a very popular Japanese novel and still widely read decades after its first publication. "Botchen," a timeless Japanese novel written by Japan's most beloved novelist, Soseki Natsume, is now available in a revised edition featuring a new foreword by Dennis Washburn, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages at Dartmouth College. Prof. Washburn's foreword places the importance of both the author and the book into perspective for the modern reader. Botchan's story is a familiar one: the youngest son in a middle class Tokyo family, he is consistantly in the shadow of his elder brother. With a practially nonexistent relationship with his family, Botchan finds himself cast adrift after both his parents die. Now on his own, Botchan drifts through college only to find himself...
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