{"product_id":"botchan-isbn-9780141391885","title":"Botchan","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of Japan's most treasured novels—new to Penguin Classics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against \"the system\" in a country school, Natsume Soseki's \u003ci\u003eBotchan\u003c\/i\u003e has enjoyed a timeless popularity in Japan. The setting is Japan's deep  south, where the author himself spent some time teaching English in a  boys' school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties  and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city  and with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges.  The result is a light, funny, fast-paced novel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cb\u003eNATSUME SOSEKI\u003c\/b\u003e (1867-1916) is one of the best-known Japanese  authors of the 20th century and considered as the master of  psychological fiction. He wrote 14 novels. As well as his works of  fiction, his essays, haiku, and kanshi have been influential and are  popular even today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. COHN\u003c\/b\u003e studied Japanese at Cornell  and Harvard universities, as well as in Japan, and now teaches Japanese  literature at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of a study on  the comic spirit in modern Japanese fiction.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305486012645,"sku":"NP9780141391885","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141391885.jpg?v=1767722978","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/botchan-isbn-9780141391885","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}