Kokoro - Natsume Soseki, Meredith McKinney ( Translator)

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Asia Japan Japanese Literature

Written by Natsume Soseki, Meredith McKinney ( Translator)
Read by Kotaro Watanabe, Elizabeth Jasicki
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

The great Japanese author’s most famous novel, in its first new English translation in half a century.

No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than 50 years, Kokoro - meaning “heart” - is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls “Sensei”. Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt, and revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish and his student’s struggle to understand it, the profound cultural shift from one generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early 20th century.

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
Release date: 08-10-21