Heredity of Taste is Soseki Natsume's only anti-war work. Chronicling the mourning process of a narrator haunted by his friend's death, the story reveals Soseki's attitude to the atrocity of war, specifically to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, and to the personal tragedies and loss of individuality of young men like his hero Kosan, and the sacrifices made by both the living and the dead.
- ISBN10 0804836027
- ISBN13 9780804836029
- Publish Date 1 March 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 7 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tuttle Publishing
- Edition Tuttle ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112
- Language English