# Sanshiro

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- Book: [Sanshiro](https://www.bookquiver.com/natsume-soseki/sanshiro) ([Sanshiro.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/natsume-soseki/sanshiro.md))
- Authors: [Natsume Sōseki](https://www.bookquiver.com/natsume-soseki)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4173-983-9
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2025-11-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not to Japan, not to anything' Soseki's work of gentle humour and doomed innocence depicts twenty-three-year-old Sanshiro, a recent graduate from a provincial college, as he begins university life in the big city of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic, the academics and - most of all - the women, Sanshiro must find his way amongst the sophisticates that fill his new life. An incisive social and cultural commentary , Sanshiro is also a subtle study of first love, tradition and modernization, and the idealism of youth against the cynicism of middle age. This is a Clothbound Classics edition of Soseki's beloved novel, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality, colourful and tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Masterfully translated by Jay Rubin, this edition also includes an introduction by Haruki Murakami.