The Java Sparrow

by Natsume Sōseki, Tom Pinch

To help him through a heartbreak, an apprentice gifts Soseki a song bird. The song bird-keeping thing goes the way of the heartbreak.
A scholar writes that "this a story concerning the sad fat of a pet bird" showing you how useless literature professors are. This is not a story concerning a pet bird, professor. This is a LOVE story. Let him who has eyes see?

35 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 14, 2022

About the author

Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目 金之助), was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note. In Japan, he is often considered the greatest writer in modern Japanese history. He has had a profound effect on almost all important Japanese writers since.