The Gate

'Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature' Haruki Murakami 'A sensitive, skilfully written novel by the most widely read Japanese author of modern times'Guardian 'Soseki's prose is so delicate that each page is like looking at a set of dreamy watercolours'Telegraph Humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone live in a modest house at the bottom of a clif...