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Kusamakura Audiobook, by Natsume Soseki Play Audiobook Sample

Kusamakura Audiobook

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Read By: Elizabeth Jasicki, Kotaro Watanabe Publisher: Penguin Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780593416990

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

18

Longest Chapter Length:

40:14 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

24 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

23:25 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

A stunning new English translation—the first in more than forty years—of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura—meaning “grass pillow”—follows 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, Kusamakura is "a haiku-style novel, that lives through beauty." Written at a time when Japan was opening its doors to the rest of the world, Kusamakura turns inward, to the pristine mountain idyll and the taciturn lyricism of its courtship scenes, enshrining the essence of old Japan in a work of enchanting literary nostalgia.

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About Elizabeth Jasicki

Elizabeth Jasicki is an actress, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator. She is known for her role in the film Merry Christmas and her performance in the critically acclaimed video game Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony.