An impetuous young graduate, born and bred in Tokyo, sets off from the capital to assume a teaching position at a provincial school only to find himself embroiled in every kind of small-town shenanigans and the machinations of the teaching staff themselves. The deputy headmaster has schemes to lay his hands on the local beauty, Madonna, and does battle with his arch-enemy Hotta, while the bewildered narrator dreams only of being reunited with his faithful servant Kiyo. Written with enormous verve and panache, Botchan is by turns deeply moving and deceptively complex. The novel is here accompanied for the first time with a comprehensive critical introduction by Dr Damian Flanagan.
- ISBN10 0720612497
- ISBN13 9780720612493
- Publish Date 1 April 2005
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 12 October 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Peter Owen Publishers
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English