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'Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature' - Haruki Murukami 'Kokoro is exactly what you would ask a novel to be... Soseki manipulates every detail with the same thrilling mastery'' - Spectator 'Sparsely populated, simple but perfect... it is a melancholy but stoical study in loneliness'' - Sunday Telegraph 'This elegant novel...suffuses the reader with a sense of old Japan' - Los Angeles Times

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Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was one of Japan's most prominent novelists of the Meiji Era. After studying in England on a government scholarship, Soseki began a career at Tokyo University as a scholar of English literature before later devoting himself to his writing. He is best known for his works I Am a Cat, Kusamakura, Botchan and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1,000-yen note.

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