{"product_id":"kokoro-by-natsume-soseki-9780143106036","title":"Kokoro","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.\" - Haruki Murakami\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe father of modern Japanese literature's best-loved novel, in its first new English translation in half a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki's \u003cem\u003eKokoro\u003c\/em\u003e, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years, \u003cem\u003eKokoro\u003c\/em\u003e—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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaunted 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. He reveals, 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 characterised Japan in the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46495086117100,"sku":"9780143106036","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25862343482238.jpg?v=1748468423","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/kokoro-by-natsume-soseki-9780143106036","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}