An Undesirable Friend
$19.35
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
Enjoy a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Natsume Soseki, Japan’s greatest modern novelist, in this sly, comic tale of cats, humans, and the absurdities of friendship.
From Japan’s most famous, classic novelist comes a remarkable gem of wit, irony, and feline observation. A stray kitten, catapulted to literary fame, loudly observes the world of Meiji Japan in all its absurdity. But he’s not the only cat in the neighbourhood, and as he rallies against the stupidity of human habit, he grows closer t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529983654 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529983657 |
| Author: | Natsume Soseki, Nick Bradley |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Brief Encounters |
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About The Author
Natsume Soseki
Nick Bradley is the author of THE CAT AND THE CITY (2020) and FOUR SEASONS IN JAPAN (2023). In 2024 he was chosen by The British Council and The National Centre for Writing as one of ten rising stars in UK writing. His work has so far been translated into twenty languages.
He lived in Japan for many years where he worked as a translator, and currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge and also taught on the Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA at UEA.
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