- Published: 15 January 2013
- ISBN: 9781590175873
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $36.00
The Gate
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- Published: 15 January 2013
- ISBN: 9781590175873
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $36.00
"Released in 1910, The Gate is among top Japanese novelist Soseki's best-know works. A man suddenly abandons his loving wife to enter a life of contemplation in a Zen temple. He goes looking for answers but finds only more questions." - Library Journal "A sensitive, skillfully written novel by the most widely read Japanese author of modern times." - The Guardian "Soseki's prose is so delicate that each page is like looking at a set of dreamy watercolors.' - Sunday Telegraph "The Gate is not so much tragic or comic as a graceful balance between the dispiriting and the humorous . . . The Gate is surely the kind of writing we need - a masterpiece of taste and clarity." - New Statesman