Botchan
By: [by] Natsume Soseki. Translated by Alan Turney.
Edition: [1st ed.
Publisher: Kodansha International
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Tokyo; Palo Alto, Calif.]
Language: eng; jpn
Number of pages: 173
Description: The setting is Japan's deep south. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; and the result is a chain of collisions large and small. Most of the story seems to occur in summer, against the drone of cicadas and the sting of mosquitoes.