Soseki is one of the most widely read authors in Japan capturing the country's culture and history. He is a master of simplicity and story. Each chapter is short, no more than two or three pages. However, this novel is one that will make you look deep inside the human heart, the gentle whisperings that were in your young mind once upon a time and question ideas about love, family and friendship.
Though set in the Meiji era, the story is timeless and beautiful. Soseki is truly one of the great gifts to our world. He is not just for readers in Japan, but for readers around the world. The restraint of his writing is powerful and the tension he creates through structure, story and foreshadowing is brilliant. I think of Murukami, one of Japan's contemporary popular writers and Ishiguro, a much loved English writer of Japanese origins. Both these writers are branches from the Soseki tree.
If you have ever loved and lost, you will fall in love again. The love you will discover will be for a man long dead, but Soseki's writing lives on.
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