To the Spring Equinox and Beyond

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Keitaro, a recent college graduate, finds his life entangled with several people whose emotional needs he can neither satisfy nor escape. A woman he once cared for, a friend whose ambitions have curdled into resentment, a family whose expectations he cannot meet — each relationship pulls him in a different direction while he tries to figure out who he is. Natsume Soseki's novel dissects the human personality with the patience of a surgeon: every evasion, every self-deception, every moment of accidental honesty is noted and examined. A novel about the impossibility of being all things to all people — and the quiet crisis of a young man who hasn't yet learned that he doesn't have to be.