Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki, Meredith McKinney (Translator) Ryunosuke and one of the funniest

and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written

Introduction by Joan Acocella

In Deeds of Light

all the while still avidly read as a popular page-turner

this tale of murder

Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki, Meredith McKinney (Translator) Ryunosuke and one of the funniestNatsume Soseki's Kusamakurameaning grass pillowfollows its nameless young artist narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or "beauty," is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's word painting. In the author's words,