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 8493592773
- ISBN13 9788493592776
- Publish Date 1 February 2008 (first published 1 April 2005)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Imprint Editorial Impedimenta
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 240
- Language Spanish