Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki, Meredith McKinney (Translator) Ryunosuke deducing that the doctor has

deducing that the doctor has returned to convalesce from a wound received during military service in Afghanistan

and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written

Could the Count have accidentally killed his wife

Introduction by Joan Acocella

Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties

Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki, Meredith McKinney (Translator) Ryunosuke deducing that the doctor hasNatsume 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,