# The Gate

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- Book: [The Gate](https://www.bookquiver.com/natsume-soseki/the-gate) ([The Gate.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/natsume-soseki/the-gate.md))
- Authors: [Natsumé Sôséki](https://www.bookquiver.com/natsume-soseki), [Francis Mathy](https://www.bookquiver.com/francis-mathy), [Pico Iyer](https://www.bookquiver.com/pico-iyer), [William F. Sibley](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-f-sibley)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-587-3
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2012-12-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An NYRB Classics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having...