{"product_id":"light-and-darkness-book-by-natsume-soseki","title":"Light and Darkness Book by  Natsume Sōseki","description":"\u003cul data-action=\"a-tabs\" class=\"a-tabs a-declarative productInfoTabs\" data-a-tabs='{\"name\": \"product_info_tabs\"}' role=\"tablist\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"productInfoTabHeader_drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader\" class=\"a-tab-heading productInfoTab productInfoTabCount-2 celwidget t-prnt t-full\" data-a-tab-name=\"tab1\" role=\"presentation\" data-csa-c-id=\"9nlrca-ke9ezk-exhdbs-11cmtu\" data-cel-widget=\"productInfoTabHeader_drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00G1SM2FQ?lv=shuf\u0026amp;channelId=500\u0026amp;plpRedirect=mhFallback#\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"vcf5s2-grjsx3-le72kn-1ck78n\" data-cel-widget=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionEditorialsHeader_feature_div\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-base a-color-base productInfoTabHeaderText\"\u003eEditorial Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productDescription_feature_div\" data-feature-name=\"productDescription\" data-template-name=\"productDescription\" class=\"a-section feature\" data-cel-widget=\"productDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-name=\"tab0\" class=\"a-box a-box-tab a-tab-content productInfoTabContent t-prnt t-full\" role=\"tabpanel\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-box-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productInfoTabExpander0\" data-a-expander-name=\"tabExpander0\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"500\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container productInfoTabExpander\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"pgayvq-jkrd8t-l120vy-vgkmhy\" data-cel-widget=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLight and Dark\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and exactitude of character revelation that had no precedent in Japan at the time of its publication and has not been equaled since. With\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e Light and Dark\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Soseki invented the modern Japanese novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecovering in a clinic following surgery, thirty-year-old Tsuda Yoshio receives visits from a procession of intimates: his coquettish young wife, O-Nobu; his unsparing younger sister, O-Hide, who blames O-Nobu's extravagance for her brother's financial difficulties; his self-deprecating friend, Kobayashi, a ne'er-do-well and troublemaker who might have stepped from the pages of a Dostoevsky novel; and his employer's wife, Madam Yoshikawa, a conniving meddler with a connection to Tsuda that is unknown to the others. Divergent interests create friction among this closely interrelated cast of characters that explodes into scenes of jealousy, rancor, and recrimination that will astonish Western readers conditioned to expect Japanese reticence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReleased from the clinic, Tsuda leaves Tokyo to continue his convalescence at a hot-springs resort. For reasons of her own, Madam Yoshikawa informs him that a woman who inhabits his dreams, Kiyoko, is staying alone at the same inn, recovering from a miscarriage. Dissuading O-Nobu from accompanying him, Tsuda travels to the spa, a lengthy journey fraught with real and symbolic obstacles that feels like a passage from one world to another. He encounters Kiyoko, who attempts to avoid him, but finally manages a meeting alone with her in her room. Soseki's final scene is a sublime exercise in indirection that leaves Tsuda to \"explain the meaning of her smile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55614798856483,"sku":null,"price":440.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55614798889251,"sku":null,"price":570.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":55614798922019,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/5872\/2083\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_80d3a08a-6c6e-42fa-b451-16bf1918c139.webp?v=1789747079","url":"https:\/\/www.bookloversbd.shop\/products\/light-and-darkness-book-by-natsume-soseki","provider":"Book Lovers BD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}