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Soseki Natsume's Botchan: The Manga Edition
One of Japan's Most Popular Novels of All Time - Now Available in Manga Form!
| Author | Soseki Natsume |
|---|---|
| Adapter | Kaori Okura |
| Translator | Makiko Itoh |
| Price | JPY 2,200 |
| ISBN | 978-4-8053-1782-2 |
| Format | 140x203mm 192pages Paperback |
| Availability | In stock |
Reckless but unfailingly honest, Botchan is the youngest son in a middle-class Tokyo family. Following his graduation from college, he takes a job as a math teacher on the island of Shikoku, far from the city. Thrust into this alien small-town environment, Botchan encounters nothing but trouble from his students and fellow teachers. Among his tormentors are the pompous, two-faced vice-principal; his fawning sidekick?the art teacher; the spineless principal; and a pack of brawny, prankster students ? all of whom seem out to get him. Mayhem ensues, but in the end Botchan prevails through honesty and dogged determination.
A modern classic, Botchan rivals Soseki's famous I Am a Cat in popularity in Japan. This is the funniest of Soseki's novels, a penetrating portrait of a young man's quest to survive the suffocating hypocrisy of everyone around him while remaining true to his beliefs.
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