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Japanese Humour and Uninterrupted Entertainment at its Best!!,
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This review is from: Botchan (Paperback)
Natsume Soseki was a famous Japanese literature author who passed away in 1916. His books are incredible.
In "Botchan", he is offered a teaching job after graduation and collects his belongings, hops the train and ends up some godforsaken place called "Shikoku" as a mathematics teacher in a middle school. What he discovers upon arrival is a very odd bunch of characters for colleagues. Botchan decides to give them all nicknames like: Badger for the Principal; Redshirt for the Assistant Principal; Pale Squash for the English teacher; Porcupine for the other math teacher and Hanger-on for the art teacher. While reading the book you'll come to learn why he gives these odd fellow colleagues the nicknames he did. The story is hilarious and the poor guy goes through a lot with both the students, who one night fill his bed with 40 grasshoppers and the teachers who are supposedly his colleagues but in a most suspicious way. The story is light, funny and never slow moving. This is uninterrupted entertainment at it's best. You've definitely got to read this novel. This one will be in my permanent collection along with one of his other books: "Kokoro"
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