Book Beat reading group selection for June

The Book Beat reading group will be meeting Wednesday, June 30th at 7 PM at the Goldfish Teahouse in Royal Oak. Meetings are free and open to the public, reading selections are discounted 15% at Book Beat

“Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.”
-Haruki Murakami

June’s Book Group Selection is “Kokoro” by Natsume Soseki.  Called by many the ‘father of modern Japanese literature,’ “Kokoro” was the final novel he completed before his death in 1916.  The work deals with the transition to the modern era, by exploring the friendship between a young man and an older man he calls “Sensei” (Or teacher).