Botchan
Ratings17
Average rating3.1
Publisher description: 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.
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Quedé un poco decepcionada de este libro. No sé de donde dicen que es cómico o divertido o que es la versión oriental de El Guardián entre el Centeno.
Son las vivencias de un novato maestro que tenía una juventud cómoda en Tokio y que al ser ubicado fuera de la ciudad tiene su adaptarse a la vida rural por su propia cuenta.
I had no idea what to expect when I started this book, but was pleasantly surprised. While at first Botchan seems comically and frustratingly cantankerous, his honest nature eventually won me over. It's a brief read, but it has a great sense of humor and a satisfying ending.
Story: 3 / 10
Characters: 6
Setting: 6
Prose: 5
Certainly feels like the “Catcher in the Rye” of Japan. Luckily this was markedly better than Salinger's. Hopefully will someday meet a fan that can explain why this book is so famous (other than its brevity).
