Botchan
A blunt Tokyo graduate who has been a nuisance since childhood takes a mathematics post at a middle school in Shikoku, and meets a staff room he renames within a week — Badger, Redshirt, Clown — and pupils who put grasshoppers in his bed. His only ally is the old family servant writing from Tokyo, and his only method is to say what he thinks. Among the most read novels in Japan and a fixture of its schools.
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