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Botchan

Translated by Umeji Sasaki

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The setting is Japan’s deep south, where the author himself spent some time teaching English in a boys’ school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; and the result is a chain of collisions large and small.

japanese title: Shin’yaku Botchan
notes: Japanese title: Shin’yaku Botchan
genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780804837033
OCLC number: 436988
publisher: C.E. Tuttle, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1980, 1987, 1994, 2005; Dover Publications, 2012
publication place: Rutland, VT, Boston; Mineola, NY
japanese publication date: 1906
english publication date: 1967
document type: Book
description: 188 p. illus. 19 cm.