Ten Nights Dreaming: And the Cat's Grave

by Natsume Sōseki

Book Overview

A murderer discovers his true nature from a talking infant, a samurai is frustrated in his attempts to meditate, and a dying man bestows his hat on a friend in these surrealistic short stories. The dream-like, open-ended tales by the father of Japanese modernist literature offer thought-provoking reflections on fear, death, and loneliness. Their settings range from the Meiji period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the era in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486797031
• ISBN13: 9780486797038
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.3"