Natsume Soseki | The Gate Penguin Classics Everything is darkly alive

Everything is darkly alive

Loach assesses the making of these humanistic films and the thinking behind them in considerable detail

from advertising to ‘gingerism’ and bullying

witness to the horrors of grief

full of people filing complaints about their dreams

Natsume Soseki | The Gate Penguin Classics Everything is darkly alive9781805332510 02 07 26 PB Translated by Francis Mathy Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature Haruki Murakami A sensitive, skilfully written novel by the most widely read Japanese author of modern times Guardian Sosekis prose is so delicate that each page is like looking at a set of dreamy watercolours Telegraph Humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone live in a modest house at the bottom of a cliff.