{"product_id":"sanshir-333-hardcover","title":"Sanshir\u0026#333; - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatsume Sōseki\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKenji Weaver\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"You have no nerve at all, do you.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith those words from a woman he will never see again, Sanshirō's journey to Tokyo truly begins. Published in 1908, Natsume Sōseki's Sanshirō is one of the most subtly perfect coming-of-age stories ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOgawa Sanshirō is twenty-three, fresh out of his provincial college in Kumamoto, and arriving at Tokyo Imperial University with a head full of vague ambitions and no preparation for what he finds in the city. A stranger on the train tells him Japan is doomed. A woman standing by a pond glances at him once, and that one glance changes his life. He has entered, as his fast-talking friend Yojirō informs him, three worlds at once-the academic, the real, and the imaginary-and he is not sure which one is the one where he belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSanshirō is a novel about the distance between what a young man sees and what he understands. Sanshirō watches everything and misses everything. He is observant, earnest, paralyzed at every decisive moment, and so thoroughly out of his depth that the reader grasps what is happening to him long before he does. Sōseki handles his hero with a tenderness that never becomes pity and an irony that never becomes contempt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new translation by Kenji Weaver, whose acclaimed translation of Sōseki's Kokoro introduced a new generation of English readers to Japan's greatest novelist of the Meiji era, captures the novel's luminous stillness and psychological depth in clean and highly readable English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 21, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57205947531569,"sku":"9783039440825","price":43.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/wUGVjYGWKm9783039440825.webp?v=1793350657","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/sanshir-333-hardcover","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}